
audiobook
VIIMEISELLÄ HETKELLÄ
ENSIMMÄINEN OSA - YLI-IHMINEN
ENSIMMÄINEN LUKU
TOINEN LUKU
KOLMAS LUKU
NELJÄS LUKU
VIIDES LUKU
KUUDES LUKU
SEITSEMÄS LUKU
KAHDEKSAS LUKU
A disorienting plunge into the after‑life opens this daring adventure, where the protagonist finds themselves trapped in a radiant, almost intangible space, teetering between darkness and blinding light. With only fragmented voices—Ho‑Hun, Tai‑Joon and the enigmatic “Great Everything”—to guide them, they grapple with a bewildering mixture of pain, exhilaration and the sensation of an invisible body. As strange, glass‑like devices swirl around a flawless, almost ethereal child‑like figure, the narrator begins to suspect that the realm they have entered is a sophisticated, perhaps alien, laboratory rather than a simple after‑world.
The story quickly shifts from sheer terror to a cautious curiosity, as the protagonist learns to sense the presence of unseen hands and the hum of incomprehensible machinery. Through terse, urgent dialogue and vivid sensory details, the narrative builds a sense of imminent discovery—what purpose does this luminous chamber serve, and who are the beings orchestrating the experience? Listeners are drawn into a suspenseful first act that promises both philosophical questions and pulse‑quickening encounters beyond any known horizon.
Language
fi
Duration
~7 hours (458K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
Release date
2020-07-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1889–1957
A Finnish journalist and novelist who helped bring detective fiction and early science fiction into Finnish-language literature, he wrote fast-moving stories under several pen names. His life was as varied as his fiction, stretching from work on Lake Saimaa to journalism and private investigation in Helsinki.
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