Length6h 3m
About this audiobook
When a catastrophic time-dilation accident at Tessera Labs traps engineer Eli Hale in a steel control chamber, his time effectively stops. Inside the room, one second equals a full day on the outside. For Eli, only three and a half hours will pass. Outside, thirty-five years slip away.
Communicating across this temporal chasm requires extreme sacrifice: every typed word costs weeks of his family’s lives. On the outside, Eli’s nine-year-old daughter, Ariel, grows into a woman, living in the shadow of a father trapped in yesterday. When the aging facility begins to fail, Ariel—now a brilliant scientist—races against a ticking clock to solve an impossible extraction problem before time runs out for good.
The Long Rescue is an intimate, high-concept sci-fi story about grief, sacrifice, and love across decades.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (25)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreScience Fiction
Length6 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One — One More Minute
1412 — Test Objects
21 — Visitor Lobby
1513 — Intact
32 — Run Fourteen
1614 — The Building
43 — Decades
17Part Three — The Capsule
54 — Inventory
1815 — Stop Rescuing the Room
Show all chaptersShow less
65 — The Angry Letter
1916 — Parts List
7Part Two — Almost Ready
2017 — Less Than a Year
86 — A Decade in Three Minutes
2118 — Assembly
97 — Her Own
2219 — The Extraction
108 — Supervising
2320 — The Room
119 — The Chair
2421 — Towels
1210 — Conditional
25Epilogue — Coffee
1311 — Older
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book SetToshikazu Kawaguchi18h 55m4.5 (1.4K)$40 · $0.00
PRIMAL 2055 - EscapeJack Silkstone6h 47m4.4 (232)Free
The Twilight Zone Companion, Second EditionMarc Scott Zicree16h 46m4.5 (1.8K)$28 · $0.00
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Annotated)H. Beam Piper8h 23m4.5 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
Philip K. Dick: SF Boxed SetPhilip K. Dick29h 38m4.5 (608)$1 · $0.00
Magician's EndRaymond E. Feist17h 5m4.4 (21.7K)$40 · $0.00
Good OmensNeil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett12h 14m4.4 (1M)$29 · $0.00
The Emperor's FistJay Allan8h 37m4.5 (272)$26 · $0.00
The DispossessedUrsula K. Le Guin13h 26m4.4 (189.3K)$33 · $0.00
1984George Orwell11h 31m4.3 (6.2M)$1.20 · $0.00
Lost ValleyWalt Browning7h 47m4.3 (5.4K)$20 · $0.00
The Best of H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine & The Invisible ManH. G. Wells14h 58m4.3 (3K)$2 · $0.00
AgincourtBernard Cornwell16h 18m4.3 (41.4K)$40 · $0.00
Frankenstein (The Uncensored 1818 Edition) (Annotated)Mary Shelley9h 25m4.3 (1.7M)$3 · $0.00
The World Wasn't Ready for YouJustin C. Key11h 34m4.4 (812)$5 · $0.00
Godzilla vs. KongGreg Keyes10h 32m4.3 (1.4K)$20 · $0.00
Alas, Babylon (Annotated)Pat Frank12h 32m4.3 (11.6K)$2 · $0.00
Day of WrathWilliam R. Forstchen4h 36m4.3 (1.9K)$14 · $0.00
AbandonedJules Verne7h 42m4.3 (1.1K)$2.30 · $0.00
StargodsIan Douglas12h 15m4.4 (732)$5 · $0.00
You may also like
CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m4.6 (4.9K)$26 · $0.00
Going SoloEric Klinenberg8h 37m3.6 (3.6K)$17 · $0.00
Finding FishAntwone Q. Fisher, Mim E. Rivas12h 11m4.4 (6.4K)$29 · $0.00
ThriftSamuel Smiles11h 34m4.2 (265)$2 · $0.00
Easy Street (the Hard Way)Ron Perlman10h 51m4.3 (1.9K)$20 · $0.00
No Promises in the WindIrene Hunt5h 5m4.1 (3.2K)$20
GameWalter Dean Myers3h 47m4.0 (1K)$20 · $0.00
SickPorochista Khakpour7h 38m3.6 (3.8K)$26 · $0.00
I'm Just a PersonTig Notaro5h 15m4.1 (15.4K)$24 · $0.00
The Middle PlaceKelly Corrigan7h 40m4.0 (35.9K)$17 · $0.00
Last Summer on State StreetToya Wolfe6h 6m4.3 (12.9K)$24 · $0.00
The Outside of a HorseGinny Rorby8h 28m4.3 (1.2K)$17
LitMary Karr12h 30m4.0 (31.8K)$29 · $0.00
It’s the End of the World as I Know ItMatthew Landis5h 18m4.1 (909)$20
Dark Room EtiquetteRobin Roe12h 17m4.4 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Song of the SparrowTara MacLean10h 55m4.5 (314)$29 · $0.00
Just a GirlLia Levi1h 58m4.3 (1.8K)$16 · $0.00
Small StepsPeg Kehret3h 8m4.4 (11.8K)$15 · $0.00
You Go FirstErin Entrada Kelly4h 32m4.0 (7K)$20 · $0.00
Ask Me No QuestionsMarina Budhos4h 6m3.8 (3.4K)$20