Contact

Echoes in the Dark

De: Joshua T. Calvert

Narrado por: Suehyla El-Attar Young

Alone in deep space, she wakes to find her crew dead, her ship failing, and a mysterious signal pulsing from a distant planet. Is she truly alone?

In the unforgiving silence of deep space, a lone astronaut awakens—disoriented, alone, and haunted by fractured memories. The cryostasis pod that saved her life now feels like a coffin. The rest of the crew? Gone—victims of mysterious malfunctions that ravaged the ship. Only a glitchy, well-meaning robot remains to keep her company.

Stranded twenty-five light-years from home in an alien solar system, the spaceship is falling apart. Doors hiss open without command, shadows flicker in the failing lights, and something in the ship's stern—a colossal, energy-draining cargo hold—remains sealed, defying her attempts to uncover its secrets.

But isolation might be the least of her fears. As sensors detect a pulsing signal from the rings of a distant gas giant, the question becomes chillingly clear: What—or who—is out there?

A tense, atmospheric journey through the void, Contact: Echoes in the Dark is gripping hard science fiction from million-selling author Joshua T. Calvert. Fans of Andy Weir, Arthur C. Clarke, and Peter Cawdron will be captivated by this tale of survival, mystery, and the eerie possibilities lurking in the dark reaches of space.

©2025 Joshua T. Calvert (P)2025 Podium Audio

Home is where you make it.

I started thinking I knew where our space traveler was about 2/3 of the way in, although I was pleasantly surprised when all was revealed. The author did an amazing job of keeping us engaged in the story even though very few details were revealed. Ultimately, it’s the relationship between the traveler (are we ever told her name?) and the Ahmed robots that that touches us the most. I wish the ending to the book is what would happen in reality, but I have my doubts, still I’m an optimistic person and humanity has a way of surprising us all.

Worst narration I have ever heard

From the opening sentence, the narration is like listening to nails on a chalkboard. I tried to put my finger on exactly what was so frustrating about it. In summary, I think the best way to describe it is erratic. Slipping in and out of random accents, bursts of maniacal emotion, terrible pacing, etc… The story itself is fine enough. But it’s so overshadowed by the terrible narration that it is borderline impossible to finish. I have honestly never listened to anything on Audible with worse narration. Truly epic.

Good first contact sci fi with great narrator

Narrator gives this story an extra boost. The emotion she puts in her voice fits the character well. Good simple ‘space ship sci fi with robot friends’ - type story

Wow, cool ending

Very cool and fun. It was quite a ride and worth the read of this new author for me

ASMR nonsense

Impossible to listen to. Do yourself a favor and read the physical book. This sounds like it’s YouTube ASMR.