Length11h 42m
About this audiobook
A NARRATIVE OF ARRIVAL: THE SPECIAL EDITION TRILOGY gathers nine volumes of Gemini Cool's speculative cosmology into one binding of three parts. Part One, The Telling, contains the three narratives: The Attention of the Whole Earth, The Long Afternoon, and The Older Glass, which recount the event, its aftermath, and the deep past that precedes it. Part Two, The Witness, holds the two testimonies, Attendance and The Count, works that sit between story and document, recording what people saw and counted. Part Three, The Record, collects the reference volumes: The Lower Atlas and The Wide Reckoning in two parts, cataloguing civilizations, races, the Residents, and the chronology of contact. Framing essays open the whole and each part, tracing the shift from narrative to testimony to record. Together they follow the arrival from first witness to final accounting. The edition includes a full chronology appendix, an edition note, and three-band cover art. Crabtree Library.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Science Fiction
Length11 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE TELLING
26ERA VI — THE WITHDRAWAL
2THE ATTENTION OF THE WHOLE EARTH
27ERA VII — THE OPENING
3THE LONG AFTERNOON
28ERA VIII — THE MIDDLE QUIET
4THE OLDER GLASS
29ERA IX — THE PERMIAN EMERGENCY
5THE WITNESS
30ERA X — THE LONG AFTERNOON
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6ATTENDANCE
31ERA XI — THE PRESENT SEASON
7THE COUNT Part 1
32The three great unknowns
8THE COUNT Part 2
33BOOK THREE — THE LINEAGES
9THE RECORD
34I. What can be described and what cannot
10THE LOWER ATLAS
35II. The Shell Biosphere
11BOOK ONE — THE WORLD BELOW
36III. The Disc Biosphere
12I. The Frame Problem
37IV. The Lower World Biosphere
13II. The Sills
38VI. A Bestiary of the Tended
14III. The Fourteen
39VII. What the Three Biospheres Are To Each Other
15IV. The Provinces
40V. The Registers
16V. Air, Light, Weight and Weather
41BOOK FOUR — THE WORKS
17VI. The Mapping
42I. CORRIDORS
18IV-b. The Provinces in Detail
43II. SHELLS AND THE TENDING
19BOOK TWO — A HISTORY OF THE UNDERSIDE
44III. VESSELS AND THE YARDS
20On writing a history without documents
45IV. THE BOUNDARY
21ERA I — THE FOUNDING
46V. VACATING
22ERA II — THE FIRST TENDING
47VI. THE COUNTING APPARATUS
23ERA III — THE OXYGEN EMERGENCY
48VII. THE RETURNS
24ERA IV — THE LONG STEADY
49VIII. WHAT THE WORKS COST
25ERA V — THE GREAT WORK
50BOOK FIVE — THE OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
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