The Tenth Year

The Tenth Year

By Phillip Mitchell Polite
Michael Caine
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Length1h 44m

About this audiobook

The Tenth Year is a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller set aboard the generation ship Archimedes, carrying 50,000 sleeping colonists across the void. Three years into a ten-year maintenance shift, Life Systems Technician Corinne and Chief Engineer Elias are the only two awake when a catastrophic reactor breach threatens total extinction. The math is brutal: save forty thousand future colonists—or preserve the ten thousand frozen in Sector 4, including Corinne’s husband and young daughter. As power fails and time collapses, logic and love collide in the silent corridors of a drifting city of ghosts. With no villains, no easy answers, and a single manual lever that will decide humanity’s fate, Corinne must choose between the present she loves and the future she’ll never see. In the darkness between stars, survival has a cost—and someone must pay it.

Audiobook details

GenreScience Fiction, Fantasy
Length1 hr 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Ghost In The Ice
8Environmental Warfare
2The Strike
9The Blood On The Frost
3The Cold Math
10The Server Room
4The Denial
11The True Cost
5The Lockout
12The Lever
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6Into The Dark
13The Silence Of The Void
7The Hunt Begins
14Epilogue

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