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Eight astronauts. Four go down to the lunar south pole, and the landing radar fails at two thousand meters. What is left, forty-nine seconds later, is a vehicle lying at twenty-three degrees in a boulder field undisturbed since before there was anything on Earth that could be called alive — a commander dead in a compartment full of vacuum, two survivors behind a hatch held shut by twenty-eight thousand newtons, and no way to tell the Earth that anyone is breathing. Houston can only watch. Two cameras pass overhead for eleven minutes out of every ninety-six, and what they see is the whole of what is known. What follows is not a rescue. It is engineering, arithmetic and discipline, carried out by exhausted people in a room with no floor, in a shadow two billion years old — and the price of every hour of it.
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GenreScience Fiction
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Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 17, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Mission Dossier
2PART ONE — TRANSLUNAR
3ONE — QUARANTINE
4TWO — THE LAST SIM
5THREE — THE BEACH HOUSE
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6FOUR — THE DAY BEFORE
7FIVE — LAUNCH DAY
8SIX — THE ROOM IN 2026
9SEVEN — T MINUS
10EIGHT — ALTA
11NINE — COAST
12TEN — THE SPORT
13ELEVEN — THE FALLING
14TWELVE — THE EYE
15THIRTEEN — GATEWAY
16FOURTEEN — TRANSFER
17FIFTEEN — DESCENT ORBIT
18SIXTEEN — POWERED DESCENT
19PART TWO — THE SHINGLE
20SEVENTEEN — FORTY SECONDS
21EIGHTEEN — WHAT THE EYE SAW
22NINETEEN — AFT
23TWENTY — TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND NEWTONS
24TWENTY-ONE — THE CROSSING
25TWENTY-TWO — WHAT THE EYE SAW NEXT
26TWENTY-THREE — THE VERDICT
27PART THREE — FOUR DAYS DARK
28TWENTY-FOUR — THE HOUSE
29TWENTY-FIVE — THE FIRST NIGHT
30TWENTY-SIX — THE MEETING
31TWENTY-SEVEN — WHAT A RADIO IS
32TWENTY-EIGHT — THINGS THAT DID NOT WORK
33TWENTY-NINE — EVA ONE
34THIRTY — THREE SHADOWS
35THIRTY-ONE — THE WRITING ON THE GROUND
36THIRTY-TWO — BUS B
37THIRTY-THREE — SIXTY-EIGHT HOURS
38THIRTY-FOUR — THE EIGHTEENTH
39PART FOUR — MERIDIAN
40THIRTY-FIVE — THE OFFER
41THIRTY-SIX — THE PEOPLE WHO HATED HIM
42THIRTY-SEVEN — BAY FOUR
43THIRTY-EIGHT — THE TWO WHO SLEPT LAST NIGHT
44THIRTY-NINE — THE MIDDLE
45FORTY — ONE TRUE THING
46FORTY-ONE — THE DARK
47FORTY-TWO — WHAT THE GROUND CARRIES
48FORTY-THREE — CAIRN
49FORTY-FOUR — THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER
50FORTY-FIVE — THE SECOND WEEK OF OCTOBER
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