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No Kindness Too Soon

By: Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, Garrett Michael Brown
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Summary

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.

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An incredible and unexpected listen

Found this by pure accident. A story of a very unusual first contact with something out there in space. A brilliantly well acted and riveting drama with a completely unexpected and "Wow" twist in the tail. Its not often something like this makes me stop, think, sit up and pay attention. I'd been suffering a bad bout of depression when I chose to listen to this, and by the end it had snapped me out and made me look at things so differently. To the author, thank you so much for this. I am looking forward to seeing what else you have written now.

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very good

really good story, weaves in so many good themes and all feel natural to the plot, even if we have a story about a potential alien contact. very engaging, i really wanted to know how it develops and ends. i would highly recommend it, works well at night in a dark and silent room, for maximum impact on meditating about human/alien nature and one's place in the universe.
“we don’t have the scientific vocabulary for that” - so ominous. very good performance.

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Had me hooked

Awesome suspense and very interesting narrative. Enjoyed the crew of weird characters too. Thumbs up

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Classic SF Radio Play. Loved it.

It was great. Cast having a great time with some dodgy accents and classic SF stereotypes building an intriguing story which contained a clever internal dialogue about how preposterous it all was while at the same time conveying some very deep ideas about what aliens might be and what ‘they’ would not be. Plus a very smart, soft twist ending. Well done everyone involved.

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TWO THUMBS UP

THE SOUND DESIGN IS WELL BALANCED, WITH NO INTRUSIVE OVERLAP OF TRACKS. THERE IS A GOOD SAMPLE OF ACCENTS SOME ARE SUBTLE OTHER ONE MAY FIND ABRASIVE IN LINE WITH CHARACTERIZATION. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT LISTEN, WITH A LOT OF IDEAS PACKED INTO JUST OVER TWO HOURS.

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First contact

I enjoyed this tremendously while driving to Germany. Finished it on my way there; it made the trip more pleasant and shorter.
A group of scientists are asked to decipher a code that might have been sent by aliens.
We read / listen and discover what that has to do with some highly unpleasant things happening around the Earth.


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Enjoyed this short story

It was really original and well done. I can recommend it for a short listen will look for more by same writer

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Thank you - an enjoyable respite

What a pleasant family listen on this 1st May holiday day. Thank you for the performance & the story. Very pleasant voices to listen too, & the accents were believable. I had not heard of this author, Silvain Neuvel, & listened because it was a freebie. I’ll look out for this author now.

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"Because I can."

A radio signal from somewhere in space. As a tiny group of scientists meet in the Grand Canyon to discuss what it might mean, outside news bulletins reported unusual weather conditions causing destruction and deaths plus a class of school children mysteriously dying.

An excellent full cast (apart from two) help make this short SF novella both memorable and enjoyable. An Audible Original available for free download with the Audible Plus programme.
Highly recommended

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Progressive Politics does Sci-Fi

I'm sure the writer and the cast all had good intentions with this little mini-drama but I'm afraid the balance of actual storytelling and clumsy social justice / progressive politics was badly out of whack. When one character bemoaned the whiteness of Voyager's Golden Record I knew something was up and it barely let up from there. We had a dash of eco-activism, some more anti-colonial navel gazing and then an incredibly frivolous LGBT injection at the end. The kids will love it because they have no knowledge of a time before all entertainment was appropriated to push these concepts into their brains.

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