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
2Prologue
3CHAPTER ONE: The First Missing Star
4CHAPTER TWO: A Pattern of Absence
5CHAPTER THREE: The Woman Who Predicted the End
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6CHAPTER FOUR: The Distances Begin to Fail
7CHAPTER FIVE: Geneva Black
8CHAPTER SIX: The Long Silence
9Part II
10CHAPTER SEVEN: The Long Approach
11CHAPTER EIGHT: Debris Between Worlds
12CHAPTER NINE: Metal That Should Not Exist
13CHAPTER TEN: The Graveyard Lattice
14CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Custodian Wakes
15CHAPTER TWELVE: Echoes Older Than Light
16Part III
17CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The History Before History
18CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Empty Sky
19CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Safe Region Hypothesis Revised
20CHAPTER SIXTEEN: What the Door Was Guarding
21CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Thirteenth Line
22CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Fortress Species
23CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Weight of Prior Answers
24CHAPTER TWENTY: This Is Going to Save Us
25Part IV
26CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Weight of What Was Built
27CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The First Fracture
28CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Sky They Kept
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Protocol
30CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: What Is Lost
31CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: What ORPHEUS Kept
32CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Terminal Phase
33CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Departure
34CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Transit
35CHAPTER THIRTY: The Absence Ahead
36CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Crossing
37Epilogue: The Fourteenth Wake
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