First Ascent, Douglas Phillips
First Ascent, Douglas Phillips
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First Ascent

Author: Douglas Phillips

Series: Ascending Carbon

Narrator: Anna Caputo

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/18/2025


Synopsis

Orbits in ruin. A tether into space. But how much is a lie?When an unauthorized oil rig appears offshore of Ecuador, a military team is sent to investigate. The deep-water platform has no markings, no drilling rig, and no workers—but it's surrounded by a curious bank of fog. When their helicopter closes in, it's swallowed without a trace.Sahalie Spark is the host of a popular TV show, Don't Believe It! Each week, she debunks another baseless conspiracy theory or takes a lighthearted poke at misinformation infecting unfiltered media. Like most, she dismisses the story out of Ecuador as nonsense, but when a Korean billionaire offers exclusive access, Sahalie connects the dots. It's not an oil platform, it's a tether into space, and it could be the solution to the debris catastrophe that has crippled spaceflight for years.Questions remain, answers are elusive, and danger lurks along this vertical railway. With the world watching, Sahalie will need to climb ever higher to discover the truth or die trying.From the author of the Quantum series comes an exciting new novel framed in real science that takes listeners on a journey of discovery through the back doors of reality.

About Douglas Phillips

Douglas Phillips is the author of the Quantum series, science fiction thrillers set in the fascinating world of particle physics, where bizarre is an everyday thing. Doug has two science degrees, has designed and written predictive computer models for natural processes and engineered structures, reads physics books for fun, flies airplanes to waste money and peers into deep space with his backyard telescope.


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