Length10h 34m
About this audiobook
On a night in late autumn, the Moon went out.
What hung over Chicago the next morning was seen, in a single hour, by sixty percent of the waking human race — the most synchronized moment in history. Then it settled onto a Texas beach, bored a nineteen-kilometer shaft into the floor of the Gulf, and left three figures standing on the water. They have not moved since.
Nothing was demanded. Nobody was harmed. No one was ever spoken to.
THE ROOF is the complete fifteen-hundred-year account of what came next — a chronicle told not through heroes but through instruments, institutions, markets, and rock. A cordon guarding a beach it cannot see. A hole that will not close. Eighty million older holes already in the crust, cut before there were continents. And a species that built an entire civilization around a neighbor who has never once knocked.
Four volumes. One hundred thousand words. One unanswered question.
Not what do they want.
Whether we were ever the point
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART ONE: THE OCCULTATION
2PART TWO: THE HOUR ABOVE MICHIGAN AVENUE
3PART THREE: THE VANISHING, AND THE EMPTINESS OF EVERY INSTRUMENT
4PART FOUR: THE CORDON
5PART FIVE: THE SLOW DESCENT
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6PART SIX: THE DAY OF THE EMPTY BEACH
7PART SEVEN: THE PULSE
8PART EIGHT: THE SHAFT
9PART NINE: THE WATER AFTER
10PART TEN: THE THREE
11PART ELEVEN: THE PROBLEM OF RECEPTION
12PART TWELVE: THE NEW MYSTERY
13A NOTE ON THE RECORD
14ADDENDUM: THE HALLWAY
15VOLUME TWO — THE LONG AFTERNOON
16PART ONE — YEAR FIVE: THE FLOOR
17PART TWO — YEAR FIFTY: THE TRAFFIC
18PART THREE — YEAR TWO HUNDRED: THE NEIGHBOR
19PART FOUR — YEAR FIVE HUNDRED: THE CLOSING
20A NOTE ON THE CONTINUATION
21VOLUME THREE — THE OLDER GLASS
22Before
23BOOK ONE — THE OTHER DOORS
24I. The Eleven
25II. What Grew at the Edges
26III. The Banda Century
27IV. The Polynya
28V. The Institution and the Age
29VI. The Dry Doors
30VII. The First Door, Closing
31BOOK TWO — THE DESCENT
32I. The Argument
33II. The Crossing
34III. What Came Back
35IV. The Forty
36V. What Was Not Attempted
37VI. The Imagery
38VII. The Long Crews
39VIII. The Returns
40IX. The Fleet
41BOOK THREE — THE OLDER GLASS
42I. The Trawl
43II. The Fossil Rings
44III. The Drift Problem
45IV. The Traffic Log
46V. What the Doors Are For
47VI. The Fourteen
48VII. The Shells We Were Standing On
49VIII. The Count
50IX. The Seasons
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