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No Kindness Too Soon

By: Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, Garrett Michael Brown
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From the author of the Themis Files and the Take Them to the Stars series comes a new, riveting story of first contact.

What kind of message would you have sent into space?

I wouldn’t have.

Why not?

Because they might hear it, and then they might come.

A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery.

What they discover could be the difference between life as we know it—and the end of the world.

©2022 Sylvain Neuvel (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC. First Contact Science Fiction Suspenseful Funny

About the Creator

Sylvain Neuvel dropped out of high school at age 15. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India, and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. He absolutely loves toys; his girlfriend would have him believe that he has too many, so he writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). His debut, Sleeping Giants, was described by NPR as "one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory."

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I may be the only one, but I am getting weary of the closing chapter "I found love" cliche being magnified by more cliches...

yet another cliche twist ending

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This story doesn’t go where you expect it to and it gets there in a thought provoking way.

Really Good

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Definitely want more audiobooks like this. The performance of the multi-cast narrators is superb. And the story itself is original and entertaining.

It feels like watching a movie

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Story was amusing for a road trip but man it was like it was written by a teenager. Cool idea but it was hard to get through the story and character quality.

Meh…

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I loved this author's Themis trilogy, even though it suffers from some of the same weaknesses. But here, the characters were even more overwrought and unbearable. The General alone, both in writing and performance, made me unable to enjoy this story. Please, I beg you - fewer lines dripping with sarcasm and disdain! It's unrealistic and very hard to listen to.

Cool idea; unbearable execution

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A fantastic listen. Take yiur time and really think about what they are saying about

Really really interesting and thought provoking

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I haven't had much luck with the "free" Audible novels in the past so this was a welcome change of pace. I won't spoil the plot but just say that this is very much worth a listen and the quote at the beginning struck a chord with me.

A pleseant surprise

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Wonderfully WrittenStory about human nature, the importance and impact of context. The ripples of kindness or meanness and the healing power of 💚 love

Wonderfully WrittenStory

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Super fun listen and keeps you hooked!!! Go for a walk and give it a listen!

A great short story!!!

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Very well done. The story for a sci-fi fan was very brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

Good Sci-fi!

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