The Afterlife Project Audiobook By Tim Weed cover art

The Afterlife Project

A Novel

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Afterlife Project

By: Tim Weed
Narrated by: Bradford Hastings, Dawn Harvey, Frankie Corzo
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $33.90

Buy for $33.90

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

Separated by ten thousand years, a team of scientists and their test subject must work together to save the human species—before it's too late . . .

With humanity facing imminent extinction, Centauri Project scientists use technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth's future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end—though he knows he's probably searching in vain, stranded on an uninhabited planet silently orbiting the sun.

Meanwhile, back in 2068 AD, a devastating hyperpandemic has quelled all talk of interstellar travel and thrown the future of humanity into grave doubt. Four surviving members of the Centauri team board a vintage solar-powered sailing yacht for a harrowing journey in search of a second test subject. Their destination is a small volcanic island north of Sicily rumored to harbor that rarest of creatures: a woman capable of getting pregnant, thereby ensuring this generation of Homo sapiens isn't the last. But first they must make it halfway across the post-apocalyptic globe, risking heatwaves, oceanic megastorms, murderous gangs, deranged cult leaders, a volcanic eruption, and the dangerous microbes that continue to circulate through the planet's atmosphere.

A finalist for the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, The Afterlife Project encompasses a desperate quest for the key to the future of humanity, an impossible love story, and a search for meaning across the inconceivable vastness of geological time.

©2025 Timothy John Weed (P)2025 Podium Audio
Adventure Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Time Travel

Critic reviews

"Smart, achingly beautiful, and (yes) important: a gripping novel of climate cataclysm with a cast of characters I cared about deeply."

(Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Flight Attendant)

"A super-smart, super-fun page-turner about a scientist trying to survive alone on Earth in the deep future—and the love of his life trying to travel through time to find him. I can't think of a single page that didn't make me pause to admire a sentence, an image, or a particularly fascinating idea. I loved this book."

(Angie Kim, New York Times–bestselling author of Happiness Falls)

"The Afterlife Project isn't just a story about the end of the world as we know it—it's an exploration of beauty, and love, and hope in the darkness. If you were a fan of Cloud Atlas, you won't want to miss this one."

(Janelle Brown, New York Times–bestselling author of Pretty Things)

All stars
Most relevant  
Delicate prose woven with a gripping story contemplating the fragility of our planet, species and psyche

Lovely story of fragility

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This book had me from the opening. The author did an incredible job of painting a beautiful landscape of the future. The characters are all intriguing and you genuinely care about each of them. One of my recent favorites

Beautiful story, well told and excellent narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

...what is happening in the present. Actually, the "how we got to this point in the far, far future" was a bit more engaging. It's always difficult when you have a character on their own with no other humans around, but the present was well done because the author has the MC reflecting on his life before.

Enjoyable read.

The backstory was as interesting (or more) than...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.