The Killing Star – Charles Pellegrino, George Zebrowski Free Audiobook

Written by Charles Pellegrino, George Zebrowski
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps

The Apocalypse occurs nine days prior to America’s Tri-Centennial celebration — when relativistic bombs launched by an unknown alien civilization finally reach their destinations. One man sees them approaching — but by then, it is already too late. And in a brief, incomprehensible instant, every inhabited planetary surface in the solar system is wiped clean. Life has ceased to exist.

Now all that is left of humanity is a handful of survivors hiding between the planets in mobile space research facilities and experimental habitats — a small, terrified remnant of civilization struggling to make some sense of the catastrophe that has obliterated their past and future, while searching desperately for a means of escape before the Intruders’ doomsday technology can detect and destroy them.

Astonishingly, on a dead and sterile Earth, two people remain alive – a Jesuit and a pilot aboard the deep-diving submersible, Alvin, protected from the devastation by the cold, enveloping waters. A historian and a scientist, it is they whom destiny has chosen to wander the surreal, empty wastes of a terrifying ghost planet – to battle fear, loneliness and encroaching madness…and to await the inevitable arrival of the annihilators from the stars.