The Gone World

De: Tom Sweterlitsch

Narrado por: Brittany Pressley

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.

Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

Good but heavy to follow

I like NCIS but this twist with future involved and too much blood was not the best for me. I needed to push myself to finish.

A time travel story that doesn't cheat.

I usually dislike any sci-fi story that deals with time travel because they always seem to be sloppy. The writer will write themselves into a corner and then with some non relevant plot twist they magically "fix" their sloppy story telling. This story is well done and engaging. The narrator Brittany Pressley is a great match to the story. The combination of story and narrator makes the entire piece better than the sum of parts

Solid prose, good story, compelling characters

It's really quite good. There are a few logical holes in the plot (time travel will do that) which really bugged me, but when you boil it down, the prose is crafted well, the characters have depth and are compelling, and the story is interesting enough to keep one reading.

Amazing creative unfurls through perfect delivery...fantastic!

A great story that builds off known sci-if roads but adds new twists & turns — wonderful narration. This is time well spent.

When Your Gravity Fails and Negativity Won’t Pull You Through

There was a time in my life when I was not as well read when I would have given this piece five stars simply because I could not put it down. I also remember a time in my life after my 300 days in a long term drug rehab for the the “reluctant to recover” when a new counselor said to me one day in a rich southern drawl, “You sir, are juvenile!” Turns our she was high as a kite in a full blown relapse after 18 years clean but she was spot on. Although my maturity level has not increased much in the past few decades, I like to think I’m a smidge less impulsive, a skosh more sincere, a smidge less self-destructive and hair more wise. I have thus come to expect more out of my five star reads than a fast read. I’m gonna give this piece five stars because of the weird ending and like a good David Lynch film I didn’t fully comprehend the beginning, middle or end, nor half the concepts of time travel in the multi-verse.

Meh...Hard to finish.

I need to stop reading reviews before I listen to a new story I guess. I had high expectations for this book but it disappointed in a massive way. Getting through the story was a true effort that took me several weeks to finish. To put this into perspective if I am listening to a story that really grips me I will spend between 6 to 10 hours straight and sometimes find myself going to sleep at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. With this book I often turned it off mid-chapter

Furthermore the ending was a TOTAL and COMPLETE disappointment. It truly is like the writer lost the story and threw the ending in that seemed to go completely off the tracks.

In the end I wish I had never purchased this book. So many stories over the years have left indelible impressions on me and a few have touched me deeply. This book is NOT in a good category for me.

A relentless and disturbing thrill ride!

This story is truly amazing - with its unique blend of sci fi, police procedural, detective noir and horror. But most unsettling is the central concept around which the story revolves - that is, it is possible to travel to a potential future and live in that future, only for it and everyone living in that future to blink entirely out of existence once the time traveller leaves. The main character is wonderfully drawn - move over Dana Scully - Shannon Moss is my new hero! Brittany Pressley does a fantastic job of the narration. I could not stop listening!

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hated ending . strong female character saves the world and tgen ends up a pregnant teenager. worst ending ever.

Predictable

It was slow and predictable. I finished it but I didn't enjoy it. I feel like this could have had a lot more impact. Motivation s seemed weak and random... the writer is skilled clearly... but I didn't like this story.

Pushed to the edge

A fascinating what-if story, where travels forth in time create potential futures for the baseline time and where "the traveller" is the only thing keeping a particular future timeline in existence.

Lots of complexity, but as others have noted it is first a murder mystery novel with slasher tendencies, second a sci-fi story.

Did not enjoy the narrator. For some reason most recent audio books I've listened to have been narrated by women with slightly whiny voices. They all sound similar so maybe it's a "style" of sorts? Anyway, the protagonist was a really strong female so the narration style felt a bit off.

Also, I did not understand why the murders were so incredibly violent and gory. There seems to be a reason for it (for those that went insane I get it, but the others?) but I did not quite come through. The point was to murder people to prevent something, but all the murders seemed to be violent just because.

Anyway. Good book! Get it!