The Tempest (First Contact) - Peter Cawdron

Written by Peter Cawdron
Read by Kaleo Griffith, Caitlin Davies
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Single File, Retail True Decrypt.

Run Time: 11 Hours, 3 Minutes, 17 Seconds

Note: Books in the author’s ‘First Contact’ series are almost all standalone (including this one) and can be read in any order.

Description:

Eighteen thousand colonists lie in suspended animation, awaiting a new life around another star.

Marc and Emma are on the graveyard shift onboard the Sycorax, an interstellar spacecraft bound for New Haven, a colony world fifty light years from Earth. For the crew of the Sycorax, interstellar flight is boring-that is, until they run into a tempest. Before long, they find themselves on a crippled spacecraft falling toward a black hole, but that’s the least of their problems…

The Tempest is a tribute to Shakespeare’s final play and explores similar themes while weaving some of his dialogue into the narrative. It includes references to the 1950s classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet and Michael Crichton’s Sphere, both of which were influenced by Shakespeare’s work.

First Contact is a series of standalone novels that explore the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life. These books can be listened to in any order.