What We Brought With Us
Some Worlds Were Never EmptyBy Owen T. Caldera
Length1h 14m
About this audiobook
The first colony arrives on a frozen world carrying the last seeds of a dying Earth — and discovers that something extraordinary is already alive beneath the ice. Settlers who have spent eighty years building a home on a beautiful, empty planet learn that it was never empty at all. Four thousand colonists wake from three centuries of cryosleep to find their memories have been rewritten while they slept. And an expedition sent to investigate eleven vanished colonies finds eleven thriving cities, abandoned three days ago — by people who arrived centuries apart.
This is the first collection in The Long Departure series: four hard science fiction stories about colonisation, first contact, and the reckoning that waits at the edge of the known.
These are stories about what we discover when we get to the stars — about the worlds we displace, the histories we carry, the questions we were not prepared to be asked, and the answers we have to live inside of, long after the asking.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length1 hr 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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