Saturation Point

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: Emma Newman

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thriller from the "Master of British SF"

Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell.

The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes.

Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short.

Now, they're sending her back in. A plane crash, a rescue mission, a race against time and the environment to bring out the survivors. But there are things Marks's corporate masters aren't telling her. The Zone keeps its secrets, and so does Doctor Fell . . .

©2024 Adrian Czajkowski (P)2024 Tantor

Classic Tchaikovsky

I found the narrator’s voice annoying, but still enjoyed this twisty book greatly. Recommend for fans of sci-fi thrillers.

Got to love them plot twists!

I love stories that put a spin on the human condition and use it against them

Chillingly realistic!!

Tchaikovsky has done it again! Easily believable and sobering! He has once again made me see from a completely different perspective. And Emma Newman does amazing work with her narration! Splendid

Excellent twist

I know people say this all the time but I’d love to see this adapted to film. Great story, very visual and visceral.

Good-ish reveal(s)

I love this author's work, going slowly through the works and enjoying each one individually. I am actually happy to say this is his second-roughest book (withholding my opinion on the "roughest.") When AT stops world-building and gets to character driven story, everything works better. The world-building is of course stellar -- his specialty. I just wish the main character wasn't so one-sided in their presentatio in the book.. We learn more as time goes on, but characters are his pain-point and this book demonstrates this quite a bit.

The narration was excellently performed and gave a fear-driven account with a clinical review of each shock. While this caused an exhausting listen, the book does call for that level of heightened emotion, so I can't put this on the performer.

Intense

Intense, suspenseful, twisty turny, full of violence, all in all not the kind of thing I usually go for but well I enjoyed it nonetheless. On top of that the narration voice acting was very good. Really made you feel she was the protagonist herself.

Liked it until the end

I liked the idea of the story. I mostly enjoyed the main character. I didn’t enjoy how it ended. I felt she could have made better choices.

Eerily prescient. Less SF than prognosis.

Another excellent book by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A frightening fable of where our planet very well may be going in the all too near future. What if climate change continues unabetted: who will inherit the world, and how?

Wonderful narrator voice but too shrill and frantic for the protagonist in times of stress.

Intense and increasingly scary

Another great science fiction horror story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, with lots of nifty worldbuilding details and tension that builds to a wonderful climax.

Chilling, interesting, technical

Of greater interest to me because I have several cold-blooded pets.
Great story, great ideas here. Narration really spot on too.

I have a complaint, but it’s a bit of a spoiler; here it is:
I’m not sure how, in the end, the chief green person was not all slo-mo like the other green people. I feel like she shoulda been slo-mo cuz there was no temp diff in her room compared to outside her room, neh?