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With an easy conversational style, Hollywood stalwart Brendan Fraser leads an A-list crew of fellow Canadian actors in this audiobook. At a time in the future a group of astronauts and a group of hardened criminals are placed in a cryogenic state before their minds are uploaded to a massive quantum supercomputer. Suddenly, it's 500 years later, and the collection of misfits return home from an interplanetary voyage to find Earth devastated by war and famine. Speaking in a series of revealing interviews, each individually voiced character adds background details to how an assortment of scientists, convicts, robots, and even Mennonites must come together to survive. With its atmospheric music and effects, this is the sound of intense, thought-provoking speculative fiction. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2024]