Twelve Hundred Years of Light
A Novel of First ContactBy Enna Stuart
Length9h 34m
About this audiobook
Some messages take twelve hundred years to arrive. This one was waiting for what we just built.
Anna calls her best friend Jordan speaking Klatin, the private language they invented when they were twelve. Within hours Jordan is dodging government SUVs and hiding in motels, carrying the biggest secret in human history.
Anna's satellites discovered the signal from twelve hundred light years away. It can only be opened by a civilization whose AI has grown strong enough to decode it. The lock is deliberate. What's inside is the survival knowledge of worlds that came before, passed from civilization to civilization through time, arriving exactly when a species needs it most.
In a locked Colorado lodge, a linguist named Mira and eight experts race to translate it while the government decides whether the world can be trusted with the truth.
A first contact novel about friendship, secrets and the future of humanity. For readers who loved Contact, Arrival and Project Hail Mary.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length9 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title and Copyright
1713: THE POST
2Dedication
1814: TRENDING
3Epigraph
1915: THE CLOCK HITS ZERO
4PROLOGUE
2016: DAY ONE
51: THE LAST 48 HOURS
2117: CONVERGENCE
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62: ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
2218: ANNA
73: THE BREAKFAST VARIABLE
2319: WEEK ONE
84: EARL’S TELESCOPE
2420: THE CRYPTIC SECTIONS
95: TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS OF LIGHT
2521: THE STEWARD
106: THE LONG NIGHT
2622: FREQUENCIES
117: THE LETTER
2723: VOICES
128: FIRST LIGHT
2824: THE RESPONSE
139: THE WEIGHT
2925: SPH
1410: THE SHOE GAMBIT
3026: THE CONCERT
1511: CONTAINMENT
3127: CHOOSE TO REACH
1612: DAY FIVE
32About The Author
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