Temporal

By: Julian Simpson, Richard MacLean Smith, Bec Boey, Nosa Igbinedion

Narrated by: Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jessie Mei Li, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Bazeley, Jana Carpenter, Kyle Soller, Phoebe Fox, Barnaby Kay, Rebecca Boey, Danielle Lewis, Don Gilet, Ferdinand Kingsley, full cast

A gripping, full-cast science-fiction drama for fans of time travel, conspiracy theories, and unexplained phenomena.

In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes.

Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.

But is Earth safe? Could the Vanishing happen again?

To get answers, two teams are launched back in time–one to New York City before the Vanishing; another to follow a bizarre trail of clues through history, from Area 51 to the lost Roanoke colony, and beyond.

There are forces, though, that don’t want the Temporal mission to succeed. And a mysterious being whose own agenda might destroy them all.

©2024 Storypunk and Low Spark Entertainment (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC.

Just OK

The overall audio experience left a lot to be desired. some of the dialog gets lost in the music and foreground noise. I found that very frustrating. I feel like I probably missed some important pieces to the puzzle, but I got tired of rewinding 30 seconds to try and pick it up.

Some of the secondary and tertiary characters seemed like the producers were desperate to find someone to read the parts. They were offensively terrible, but I would hesitate to call them voice actors. Again, not bad enough to stop listening, but they were definitely auditory speed bumps.

The story was interesting, but sometimes hard to follow.

I don't regret listening to it, but I don't think I'd listen again.

Great voice acting great first half a story

First of all I want to compliment the voice acting it was top notch.

The story for the first half of the book was very good mystery, conflict time travel all that good stuff.

But the second half of the book had a noticable drop in quality. Things just "happened"

The plot.

I disliked how quickly it ended! I want more! Please, where can I find the second part of this???

Audio Dramas RULE!

While I enjoy audio books, every book should be made as an unabridged audio drama. For this one it was a challenge for me to keep up with the timeline changes, but was still an enthralling listen, enjoyed every minute of it. Looking forward to more audio dramas!

Interesting story; well voiced/acted

The story is interesting and twisty enough to require attention, and with one very minor exception (character with ~5 lines), very well voiced/acted. An enjoyable listen!

strong time travel possible alien changing the end of the world senerio.

I enjoyed it and it was a pretry fast listen. lots of great background sounds. got confusing had to listen to last chapter a couple times.

Interesting take on the occurrence of certain historic events.

Overall, the story was okay, but maybe not something I would rush to listen to again. Slow start... Unfortunately, this story seemed to take what should have been a simple concept, and proceeded to make it complicated. The story kept adding different subject along the way...I get the need for uniqueness,... However I feel the plot began to get lost the more they tried to bring everything together.

I think my mind zoned out somewhere in the middle...

The performance were good and it could be heard that professionalism and money went into it's production. I loved music. The pacing of the story despite some of it's confusing tones was great... It's not that I was bored with it, just confused with some of the elements. Perhaps if the story was a little longer, they could have fleshed out some concepts.

Solid sci-fi

Well produced, immersive, with very interesting ideas explored carefully. Solid sci-fi storytelling. Big recommend.

A little quantum leap

The story has good plot however it gets confusing and jumps around a lot. It left me with a lot of questions. Could have ended way better!

I like these audio dramas, but..

I liked this but the sound effects were just a little too much and took away from hearing the dialog. Yes, just a little too much background sounds.