Firstborn Audiobook (Free)

The Firstborn-the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic dark monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey-have inhabited legendary science fiction master Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s composing for decades. With Time’s Eyesight and Sunstorm, the first two books in the acclaimed Period Odyssey series, Clarke and his excellent coauthor, Stephen Baxter, thought a forseeable future in which the Firstborn look for to avoid the advance of human civilization by employing a about Firstborn technology indistinguishable from magic.

Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, re-stitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mir’s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the fantastic, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa joined into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike power-a power that ultimately returned her to Globe. There, she played an instrumental part in humanity’s competition against time to fully stop a doomsday event: an enormous solar storm induced with the alien Firstborn, designed to eradicate all lifestyle from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable cost. Right now, twenty-seven years later on, the Firstborn are back.

This time, they may be pulling no punches. They have delivered a “Q-bomb.” Speeding toward Earth, it is a tool that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed-and that may obliterate Earth.

Bisesa’s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The finish seems inevitable. But as surprising fresh insights emerge approximately the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling programs for mankind, an urgent ally appears from light-years aside.