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No Kindness Too Soon
- Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, Garrett Michael Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
From the author of the Themis Files and the Take Them to the Stars series comes a new, riveting story of first contact.
What kind of message would you have sent into space?
I wouldn’t have.
Why not?
Because they might hear it, and then they might come.
A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery.
What they discover could be the difference between life as we know it—and the end of the world.
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- L. Arnold
- 25-06-23
Enjoyed this short story
It was really original and well done. I can recommend it for a short listen will look for more by same writer
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- Mark Chitty
- 10-01-23
A fantastic short story with a great premise
Neuvel once again hits the nail on the head with this story, a different and very enjoyable take on first contact. Quick, engrossing, and delivered with style by a great cost. Highly recommended.
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- C. Windermere Stoke
- 13-09-22
Pure Genius
Well that was sheer brilliance. Who wrote this amazing story? I haven’t been this blown away by a science fiction story since reading NK Jemisin’s Emergency Skin. How do some writers come up with this stuff? It’s inspiration ten fold. Glad I randomly decided to listen to this audio story. I highly recommend.
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- Kindle RYGEL 1
- 20-08-23
TWO THUMBS UP
THE SOUND DESIGN IS WELL BALANCED, WITH NO INTRUSIVE OVERLAP OF TRACKS. THERE IS A GOOD SAMPLE OF ACCENTS SOME ARE SUBTLE OTHER ONE MAY FIND ABRASIVE IN LINE WITH CHARACTERIZATION. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT LISTEN, WITH A LOT OF IDEAS PACKED INTO JUST OVER TWO HOURS.
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- Norma Miles
- 27-02-23
"Because I can."
A radio signal from somewhere in space. As a tiny group of scientists meet in the Grand Canyon to discuss what it might mean, outside news bulletins reported unusual weather conditions causing destruction and deaths plus a class of school children mysteriously dying.
An excellent full cast (apart from two) help make this short SF novella both memorable and enjoyable. An Audible Original available for free download with the Audible Plus programme.
Highly recommended
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- London Ms
- 17-09-22
Great listen
Interesting story, well delivered. More of an audio play than a book. Worth a listen
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- Helena
- 16-08-22
I know all these people!
I addition to making you think, what is so refreshing about this author are his characters. I constantly catch myself thinking "I know this person, this is totally ..." Wish Sylvain Neuvel would write more books, faster. :) The full cast reading adds just that extra bit on top - who needs a netflix series if you have such excellent voice actors reading your work!
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- a lisa
- 17-01-24
very good
really good story, weaves in so many good themes and all feel natural to the plot, even if we have a story about a potential alien contact. very engaging, i really wanted to know how it develops and ends. i would highly recommend it, works well at night in a dark and silent room, for maximum impact on meditating about human/alien nature and one's place in the universe.
“we don’t have the scientific vocabulary for that” - so ominous. very good performance.
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- Emyr
- 23-05-24
Plausibility of the viewpoints
A great short story. I prefer narration but dramatisation worked for this. I disliked the characters to begin with, but like most people they all had their unexpected facets and problems, so I connected to everyone by the end, for who they were and their viewpoint. I loved the theoretical back-n-forth, just when you get your head around one viewpoint/theory, opinions change because of someone else’s explanation. Clever and uplifting. The premise would probably make a watchable movie 🤷🏻♂️
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- Ms. S. H. Pether
- 25-09-22
promising story marred by some terrible acccents
one of the worst 'adult actor pretending to be a child' I've heard for a long time
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