Length7h 36m
About this audiobook
For sixty-eight million years, the Continuity has been searching Earth for the lost pages of a sacred text — beings that fell here, scattered, waiting to be found.
It has asked four hundred and thirty-one times. It has been answered once.
In May 2026, three influencers and a ten-year-old boy are taken from a wellness retreat off the coast of Los Angeles. Mari, who wanted a documentary. Kiki, who is very funny and very tired. Devyn, who has been waiting since she was nineteen for someone to tell her she is real. And Otis, who is ten, and who is not a subject, and who is therefore a problem no provision covers.
Aboard, they are examined with care by an institution that has never once lied to anybody.
Then Mari finds a book in a deep gallery that nobody has opened in a very long time, and works out where the doctrine came from, and what it is.
Nobody aboard is cruel. Nobody is corrupt. Everything is entered. And there is no field on any leaf for the thing a ten-year-old asks for.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Humor
Length7 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue.
3Before Anything.
4Act One.
5Chapter One. Something Is Hiding In Here.
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6Chapter Two. Seven.
7Chapter Three. Materials Expended.
8Chapter Four. Acceleration of Access.
9Chapter Five. Terms.
10Chapter Six. Plus One.
11Chapter Seven. Observation Breach.
12Chapter Eight. Point of Acquisition.
13Act Two.
14Chapter Nine. The White Room.
15Chapter Ten. The Readings.
16Chapter Eleven. Tunguska.
17Chapter Twelve. Day Two.
18Chapter Thirteen. The Lesson.
19Chapter Fourteen. Precedent.
20Chapter Fifteen. Point of Origin.
21Act Three.
22Chapter Sixteen. Twelve Seconds.
23Chapter Seventeen. The Show.
24Chapter Eighteen. Not Entered.
25Chapter Nineteen. Extension.
26Chapter Twenty. The Recovery.
27Chapter Twenty-One. The Driveway.
28Epilogue.
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