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The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August

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The Last Gifts of the Universe

A Novel

by Riley August

Length 5 hours 42 minutes

Language English

Narrators Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine & Chris Thompson

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#45 in Bestselling Apocalyptic & Dystopian Audiobooks

AN AUDIBLE BEST OF THE YEAR PICK for 2024!

A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.

When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.

Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals – anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.

Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.

Fiction Science Fiction LGBTQIA+ Fiction Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Riley August is a speculative fiction writer, animal lover, nature walker, and all around nerd. When they aren’t writing stories about lonely voyages through space, you can find them playing video games, the guitar, or a myriad of TTRPGs. They live in woodsy New England with their cat and husband. The Last Gifts of the Universe is their debut novel.