Length3h 49m
About this audiobook
The Record was never a weapon. That's what makes it so dangerous.
At the edge of the known, past a correction-thorn shell that burns centralized authority on contact, the Fenru Record turns around a dim star — a civic structure the size of a civilization, built for witnesses and waiting for them still. Rian Vale arrives with a crew held together by burned hands, a dying ship, and an AI speaking in two voices. Quell wants interpretive custody. Rhun wants a seizure order. And the machine keeps giving everyone the same answer: too coherent means corrupted.
The only way in is incomplete. Plural. Revocable. Costly. Unfinished by design.
The Fenru Record is the final book of the Starwake Saga — a space opera about what a civilization leaves behind when it chooses to die honestly rather than survive as an empire. The answer is not a door. It's a question the living have to earn the right to finish answering.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length3 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
10Selection War
2Dedication
11Broadcast or Panic
3Epigraph
12Custody Fire
4Ashes Under Tow
13The Door Left
5Cut Authority
14Consent Geometry
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6Threshold Law
15The Record Opens
7The Thorn Shell
16The Counting Begins
8The Record Reef
17About the Author
9Catalog Child
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