No Kindness Too Soon

De: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrado por: Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, Garrett Michael Brown

From the author of the Themis Files and the Take Them to the Stars series comes a new, riveting story of first contact.

What kind of message would you have sent into space?

I wouldn’t have.

Why not?

Because they might hear it, and then they might come.

A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery.

What they discover could be the difference between life as we know it—and the end of the world.

©2022 Sylvain Neuvel (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

Plot twist!!

More science than science fiction in the beginning, but stick it out! Well worth seeing this thing through to the end. Such a good story, REALLY enjoyed it.

Really nice listen

I just finished this book and my eyes are brimming with tears. Good tears. I'm so glad that I chose to listen to this.
Thank you for having distinctive voices. This allowed listeners to think about what was happening rather than ?who is speaking right now?

Not sure why this needed Fbombs

The topic seemed unique and interesting. I was somewhat enjoying it for over half and then the language became vulgar and it ruined it for me. Audible needs to warn in the description when this sort of content is in the book. Not worth listening to this book.

Fun listen while working.

Some of the voice actors were distractingly robotic but by shutting off critical portions of my brain and playing this in the background while working, I was able to enjoy the story.

Funny, entertaining, loved the full cast

I love how Sylvain Neuvel's writing is made for audio. I'm a big fan of mysterious signals from space stories, and I'm a science nerd, so I knew I'd like it from the beginning. The full cast performed excellently, and I loved the sound design/production quality. It's a fast, thoughtful, entertaining listen that is surprisingly funny in it's combination of science and philosophy. I laughed out loud more than once and had to keep rewinding because I'm a write down that quote I love kind of girl. This book is not about wrapping up a definite 'this is what it is' ending, but more about what it could mean and how it influenced everyone who worked on the project.