Radiate Audiobook (Free)

In the follow-up to Lightless and Supernova, C. A. Higgins fuses technology fiction, suspense, and play to tell the story of a most improbable heroine: Ananke, once a armed service spacecraft, today a sentient artificial intelligence. Ananke may have the powers of the god, but she actually is consumed by a very human longing: to learn her creators.

Ananke may possess the powers of a god, but she is consumed by an extremely human longing: to know her creators. Right now Ananke is on a quest to discover companionship, understanding, about Radiate as well as love. She is followed by Althea, the engineer who produced her, and whom she views as her mom. And she is in search of her “father,” Matthew, the programmer whose code offered her the spark of life.

But Matthew is usually on a unusual mission of his personal, journeying the galaxy alongside Ivan, with whom he shares a deeply painful background. Ananke and her parents are race toward an inevitable collision, with effects as violent as the birth of the solar program itself—so that as damaging as the finding of love.

Praise for Radiate

“Radiate will take you to the sides of space you’ve never even dreamed of heading and beyond.”—Bustle

“Gripping . This sci-fi universe [is] absolutely believable, while metaphor and allegory enrich the heroes.”—NY Daily News

“A compelling emotional story about two people trying to save lots of each other from a tragedy of their own making.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Lightless Trilogy is “a perfect sci-fi entry way that matches a rich, character-driven story with fundamental questions about who we are and just why we’re here.”—LA Times