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

Got to love them plot twists!

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

Classic Tchaikovsky

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

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.

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.

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?

Outstanding stuff

I enjoyed the overall story and theme of the book. Sometimes the science went over my head but still great book, well done and will be read again.

Not up to snuff

The book is pretty standard. Not all fiction has to break new ground or so something unique but this was profoundly average writing, from a typically fantastic author. The story was a very generic episode of any sci-fi TV series. The most unremarkable episode of Star Trek.

Unfortunately, the narrator matches that. In dramatic moments, the performance felt like a parent performing a bedtime story for their child. Uncommitted vocal performance with whispery "shouts" and awkward moments when the character is supposed to be distressed.

I've listened to many novels from the author and this gives me pause in expecting more from a novel when his name is attached.

Decent corporate scifi

If you can ignore the hamfisted modrn politics, it is a decent story. Some of the plot twists were good, and others were not believable.