Waking Up is Hard to Do

An Athena Colony Story

De: Stephanie Lafond

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When veteran engineer William “Weaver” Roberts wakes alone in a silent cold‑sleep bay aboard the Colony Fleet Ship New Canaan, he expects a malfunction. What he finds instead is far worse: a ship still running smoothly, a crew of unfamiliar young women—and a captain he once trusted now dying from a genetic plague that has quietly erased every male future aboard.
As Weaver digs through fourteen years of ship’s logs, a chilling truth emerges. A single act of sabotage has doomed the Y chromosome itself, leaving New Canaan seven years from its destination with no way home, no cure in sight, and a crew forced to reinvent human reproduction just to survive.
Weaver never wanted command again. He certainly never wanted to become one of the last viable men in a society struggling to rebuild itself. But with the captain fading, the line officers untested, and the future of an entire colony hanging on fragile scientific breakthroughs, Weaver must decide whether to step forward—or watch the mission collapse.
A mystery in deep space. A biological crisis with no precedent. And one reluctant engineer who may be the last steady hand left aboard.