Persephone

Name: Persephone
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN: 9781680576245

Author: Kevin J. Anderson, Jeffrey Morris

Narrator: T. Mychael Rambo

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: WordFire Press LLC

Published: 10/28/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

The immense ark-ship Odyssey and its ten thousand hibernating settlers have left behind a dying Earth—journeying for fifty years to the nearest star and its lone habitable planet, Proxima-b.This new home for humanity is perpetually bombarded by deadly solar flares on its dayside, while the icy wasteland on its opposite hemisphere freezes in endless darkness. When the battered Odyssey arrives, its crew discovers the automated radiation shield has failed. Something appears to have damaged or perhaps even sabotaged their technology on a world where humans have yet to set foot.Astronaut Darcy Clarke, a young pilot born aboard the Odyssey, teams up with recently awakened engineer Tanya Baxter to repair the failing shield in hopes of allowing the colonists to land before their vessel falls apart. Waiting for the two explorers on the surface of Proxima-b is the geoglyph—a continent-sized landform that resembles a giant metallic work of art.Is it a massive ore deposit, an alien message, or something far stranger and vastly more dangerous? Or perhaps even sabotage for their technology on a world where humans have yet to set foot?

About Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson has written dozens of national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include the ambitious space opera series The Saga of Seven Suns and the Terra Incognita fantasy epic with its two accompanying rock CDs. He also set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riju on July 17, 2024

Last hope of the survival of humanity rests upon the crew and passengers of giant arc-ship Odyssey. Its long and hard journey is now coming to an end. But the situation is dire on two counts. The planet supposed to host the colonisers have not been prepared by the automated modules sent earlier, due......more

Goodreads review by Judi on July 31, 2025

Genre: hard SF Description: The book opens as the arkship Odyssey, containing the last ten thousand humans from a ruined Earth, approaches her designated new home, Proxima B, dubbed Persephone (for reasons which remained opaque to this reader). Very soon it will be time to thaw the hibernating passen......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on April 30, 2024

This book comes from the first ever Kickstarter that I've backed. I'm a big fan of Kevin J. Anderson, and when I learned that he was teaming up with Jeffrey Morris to write this novelization of Morris' movie script, I was really intrigued. When you add that this is a hard-science fiction story about......more

Goodreads review by LibrarianMel on November 19, 2024

I'm a sci-fi fan, and while there were some cool elements to this story, I did not really dig it, though I did force myself to finish it. There was some suspense, waiting to find out if the colony ship would finish its journey, but one of the main characters was the stupidest, whiniest lady to ever......more