Length4h 42m
About this audiobook
"I could build that myself."
"Prove it."
Every year, the two greatest engineers on the planet Kentaar spend their one week of vacation on Earth. They love the beaches. They love the octopuses. And they love laughing at the humans: their slow cars, their wobbly rockets, their billion-dollar machines that barely work.
Then one of them brags a little too hard. When the vacation ends, only one of them goes home.
Stranded on a primitive planet with no tools, no money and nothing nuclear allowed, he has thirty years to build his way back to the stars, one invention at a time. First an app. Then a car. Then a battery the size of a sugar cube. The humans think he's a genius. One whole country copies everything he makes.
And the humans loved him for it.
But every invention is secretly a piece of something bigger, and only one person is starting to notice.
A funny, sharp and surprisingly moving story about genius, loneliness, cheese puffs, and what humans do with every gift they're given.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Humor
Length4 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Part One. Stranded. Chapter One. The Bet.
3Chapter Two. How to Be a Human.
4Chapter Three. The First Invention.
5Chapter Four. The New Ride.
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6Part Two. The Icon. Chapter Five. The Power Source.
7Chapter Six. The Speed Limit.
8Chapter Seven. The Shortcut.
9Chapter Eight. The Breadcrumbs.
10Chapter Nine. Flattery, With Handles.
11Part Three. The Way Home. Chapter Ten. The Valve.
12Chapter Eleven. Keep On Trying.
13Chapter Twelve. The Car in Space.
14Chapter Thirteen. The Last List.
15Chapter Fourteen. The Pebble Queen.
16Chapter Fifteen. Homeward.
17Epilogue. The Smallest Room.
18Closing Credits
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