Lightless Audiobook (Free)

NAMED ONE OF THE BETTER BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • With deeply moving individual drama, nail-biting suspense-and bold speculation up to date by a degree in physics-C. A. Higgins spins a riveting technology fiction debut assured to catapult readers beyond their expectations.

Offering aboard the Ananke, an experimental armed forces spacecraft launched from the ruthless firm that rules Globe and its own solar system, computer scientist Althea has established an intense about Lightless emotional bond-not with some of her crewmates, but with the ship’s electronic systems, which speak deeper to her analytical brain than human emotions do. But when a pair of fugitive terrorists access the Ananke, Althea must attract upon her core for the strength to defend her beloved dispatch.

While among the saboteurs continues to be at large somewhere up to speed, his captured partner-the enigmatic Ivan-may prove to be more threatening. The perversely fascinating criminal whose silver tongue is normally his most effective weapon has lengthy evaded the government bodies’ most relentless surveillance-and kept the truth about his strategies and motives well hidden.

As the ship’s systems begin to malfunction as well as the claustrophobic atmosphere is more and more poisoned by distrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner’s layers of intrigue and deception before all is normally lost. However when the true character of Ivan’s mission is definitely exposed, it will change Althea forever-if it doesn’t kill her first.

Compliment for Lightless

“Gripping . sci-fi flavored using a hint of thriller.”-Brand-new York Daily News

“[A] measured, wonderful science-fiction debut [that is] more emotional thriller . . . included, disciplined, tense . . . The plot is usually compulsive. . . . Lightless may be the first of a planned series, so you can’t help getting excited about learning what’s following.”-The NY Times

“Lightless is filled with suspense and fun mainly because hell to learn.”-BuzzFeed

“Absolutely brilliant . . . That is technology fiction as it is meant to be achieved: scientific ideas wedded to and built upon human ideals.”-Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling writer of the October Daye series

“The stakes within this story are high-life and death, rebellion and betrayal-and debut novelist Higgins continually ratchets up the strain. . . . A suspenseful, psychological story that asks a lot of big queries about identification and freedom, that is a debut never to become missed.”-Kirkus Evaluations (starred review)

“A taut, suspenseful go through.”-Tech Times

“Lightless can be an exercise in light a very slow fuse and building the tension to an intolerable pitch while making us guess precisely how apocalyptic the best explosion will be. . . . It is a high-wire work, a wonderment, and an excellent achievement from a name we’ll end up being seeing once again.”-Sci Fi