Length12h 11m
About this audiobook
When the first seven stars vanish from the night sky, astronomer Niko Vale and his father Jonah are the first to understand what no one else will accept: the universe is unraveling. A propagating boundary of vacuum decay is rewriting reality at the speed of light, and humanity has barely two generations to respond. Buried in the asteroid belt, a 3.8-billion-year-old machine waits with a record of twelve prior universes that faced the same end. The Custodian's message changes everything humanity thought it knew about isolation, inheritance, and the cost of carrying something forward. Between the Rain Drops is a literary hard science fiction novel of cosmological scope and quiet human weight — a story about what is preserved, what is wagered, and what it means to be the iteration that refuses the empty sky.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length12 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part I
20CHAPTER SIXTEEN: What the Door Was Guarding
2Prologue
21CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Thirteenth Line
3CHAPTER ONE: The First Missing Star
22CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Fortress Species
4CHAPTER TWO: A Pattern of Absence
23CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Weight of Prior Answers
5CHAPTER THREE: The Woman Who Predicted the End
24CHAPTER TWENTY: This Is Going to Save Us
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6CHAPTER FOUR: The Distances Begin to Fail
25Part IV
7CHAPTER FIVE: Geneva Black
26CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Weight of What Was Built
8CHAPTER SIX: The Long Silence
27CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The First Fracture
9Part II
28CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Sky They Kept
10CHAPTER SEVEN: The Long Approach
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Protocol
11CHAPTER EIGHT: Debris Between Worlds
30CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: What Is Lost
12CHAPTER NINE: Metal That Should Not Exist
31CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: What ORPHEUS Kept
13CHAPTER TEN: The Graveyard Lattice
32CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Terminal Phase
14CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Custodian Wakes
33CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Departure
15CHAPTER TWELVE: Echoes Older Than Light
34CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Transit
16Part III
35CHAPTER THIRTY: The Absence Ahead
17CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The History Before History
36CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Crossing
18CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Empty Sky
37Epilogue: The Fourteenth Wake
19CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Safe Region Hypothesis Revised
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