Ark

Forward collection

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Evan Rachel Wood

Audible narration by Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld)

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond. Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection.

As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.

Veronica Roth’s Ark is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

©2019 Veronica Roth (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"Narrator Evan Rachel Wood portrays Samantha in a soft, resigned tone that fits a story in which humanity has already been through the painful grieving process and has settled into a somber acceptance of its fate...it’s the gentle emphasis Wood gives to the connections between humans that makes this audiobook such a compelling listen." --AudioFile magazine

"…A sensational project...." --Spine Magazine

“This is exactly how I like my techno-anxiety.... Happy bingeing!” --Audible, an October Editors Pick

OK Story Thats Kinda Sad;Good but Couldve Be Great

Good story about a possible future but the characters and story seemed to be missing something?? I just didn't connect to them for some reason still trying to figure that out!

Beautiful

I loved this. Science and emotion delicately intertwined into a near futuristic story. A great performance too.

Slow and Steady

Title: Ark
Autho: Veronica Roth
Format: Audio
Narrator: Evan Rachel Wood
Genre: Science Fiction, End of World
Standalone: Yes
Part of a Series: Book 1 of the Forward series
POV: Samantha
Steam Level: Clean
3/5

Ark was a good novella focused on the last two weeks of the end of the world. Using this crunch time to discover and catalogue what flora to take when leaving the world explores what is "important" to yourself versus to others. While a slow read, it was a good background listen for when I was focusing of other things.

Kind of interesting...

A short story about a group of horticulturists gathering plants species for a space ark that's leaving Earth ahead of massive asteroid impact. The story was kind of interesting with people doing their jobs up to the end trying to save what things they can and then toward the end of the story it kind of entered this vaguely nostalgic introspective bit where the main character suddenly has a big change of heart which I really didn't buy.

Great Story

Without spoiling anything, the story centered around the people who had to work on the project and not the creatures. Nice take on an old subject. Makes you think about how you would behave under those circumstances.