
The opening shows Earth on the brink, a plague devastating humanity. Engineers have poured everything into a gleaming starship, the last chance to bring back a cure hidden on Venus. Pilot John Bairn and his crew brace for the launch, aware that the fate of billions rests on a fragile flight.
Among the crew’s ranks is a mysterious thirteenth passenger, a stowaway who claims an ancient prophecy foretelling humanity’s destiny among the stars. As the rockets roar and the vessel pierces the atmosphere, tension builds between duty and belief, with each character confronting fear, sacrifice, and the enormity of space. Listeners are drawn into a tense, hopeful journey where humanity’s survival hinges on science, courage, and an unexpected hope carried across the void.
Language
en
Duration
~49 minutes (47K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2020-08-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1917–2000
A versatile American writer who moved easily between science fiction, local history, and memoir, his work ranged from pulp-magazine adventures to warmly personal books about Midwestern life. He also wrote under the name Vaseleos Garson, a byline familiar to readers of mid-20th-century genre fiction.
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