A History of What Comes Next, Sylvain Neuvel
A History of What Comes Next, Sylvain Neuvel
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A History of What Comes Next
A Take Them to the Stars Novel

Author: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrator: Andrew Byron, Dugald Bruce Lockhart, Imogen Wilde, Jilly Bond, Kevin Shen, Laila Pyne, Richard Trinder, Sylvain Neuvel, Thomas Judd

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

This program includes additional material read by Sylvain Neuvel, and a bonus conversation with narrators Jilly Bond and Imogen Wilde.

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a sci-fi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence in A History of What Comes Next.

Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all costs.
Take them to the stars.

Over 99 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race.

But Mia’s family is not the only group pushing the levers of history: an even more ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes.

A darkly satirical first contact thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them...

This program is read by: Jilly Bond, Imogen Wilde, Richard Trinder, Laila Pyne, Andrew Byron, Thomas Judd, Dugald Bruce Lockhart, and Kevin Shen, with additional material read by the author.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com

About Sylvain Neuvel

Sylvain Neuvel has taught linguistics in India and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator, though he wishes he were an astronaut. His girlfriend would have him believe that he has too many toys, so he writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course). His debut, Sleeping Giants, was described by NPR as “one of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on January 31, 2021

(2.5?) This is my fifth book by the author but probably my least favorite (well maybe after the last book in the Themis Files series). The concept was interesting, the flashbacks to older generations were great but I found the writing too dry. I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction but I hoped the......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 15, 2021

He found himself directing research on a small ballistic missile for the army. His rockets are light-years behind von Braun’s, but few people understand mathematics the way Hsue-Shen does. We have been bouncing ideas off each other for almost a decade, and I just wrote to him about my CO2 conundr......more

Goodreads review by Lala on February 21, 2021

The topic was intriguing and I typically enjoy the pairing of real world with science fiction; the inexorable relationship between the space race and the war being an especially strong lure. Sadly the narration style lacked the emotional depth I hoped for and I found it really dragged overall. Full......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on February 10, 2021

A soft 3 stars for this alternative history novella focused on the space race post-WWII, with a SF twist to it. ... plus (view spoiler)[ALIENS (hide spoiler)] . Final review, first posted on FantasyLiterature.com (along with my co-reviewer Bill's review): In A History of What Comes Next, Sylvain Neuvel recasts history with a scienc......more