Length3h 3m
About this audiobook
On the night after Christmas, every screen on Earth goes blue. Fourteen seconds later, eight billion people see something behind their eyes: a shape no camera could hold, faces they almost know, and a voice speaking in their grandmother’s language.
We are approaching. We come in peace. You have been hidden from yourselves.
Then thirty-one seconds vanish. Every clock keeps counting. Every machine on the planet stops recording.
A nurse in Hilo feels an overwhelming peace and thinks: I didn’t consent to this. A World Bank officer in Washington recognizes the broadcast — she wrote it herself, months ago, for a crisis that never happened. A girl in Lagos hears words her mother swears were never spoken, and starts asking strangers what they heard.
They are still arguing a hundred years later.
A novel about the night humanity was given a miracle it could not verify — and the century it spent deciding who had the right to explain it
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART ONE — THE LONG NIGHT
14XII. 2029: Transcript
2I. Hilo, 12:00 a.m.
15XIII. 2034: The Shepherd
3II. Washington, 5:00 a.m.
16XIV. 2041: The Cable
4III. Svalbard, 11:00 a.m.
17XV. 2063: The Drawing
5IV. Lagos, 11:00 a.m.
18XVI. 2071: The Unvisited
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6V. Mexico City, 4:00 a.m.
19XVII. 2088: The Second Evidence
7VI. New York, 5:00 a.m.
20XVIII. 2126: The Arrival Question
8VII. The First Day
21EPILOGUE — THE READING
9VIII. The Variance
22XIX. 2127: The Eighth Leg
10IX. The Notebook
23XX. What the Traces Said
11X. The Counter-Message
24XXI. What the Archives Said
12XI. The Third Night
25XXII. What the Rest of It Was
13PART TWO — THE CENTURY AFTER
26XXIII. 26 December 2127
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