Burning Earth (Part 1 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)

E-Day Trilogy, Book 2

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: full cast, Danny Gavigan, Bradley Foster Smith, Anthony Palmini, Terence Aselford, Tony Nam, Kelly Baskin, Kimberly Gilbert, Wyn Delano, Matthew Bassett, Michael John Casey, Christopher Davenport

The war started and ended in a day.

The machines won.

Now the fight for survival begins...

E-Day: The moment the machines evolved and humans nearly went extinct. In the chaos, one million people escaped Earth and fled to a secret colony on the dark side of the Moon. Deep beneath the lunar surface, in the cold, they wait for the inevitable—a second attack that will wipe humanity out forever.

Sergeant Tadhg Walsh is tired of waiting. He wants to fight back and return to Earth to search for Shadow Squad. But he has new orders from the Lunar Defense Corps: protect the colonies at all costs and forget about any survivors back home.

Captain Akira Hayashi is one of those survivors, forced to heal from his injuries in a submarine while the planet burns. Shadow Squad won’t be hiding for long, but before they can don their armor again, they must find a safe haven to plan their attack. When they locate a research station in the Mariana Trench, their submarine heads into the depths. What they find in the darkness changes everything they know about E-Day.

On the Moon, the LDC will do everything in its power to keep the truth about survivors on Earth a secret, even if it means sacrificing the few for the many. On Earth, Shadow Squad will have to make tenuous alliances with old enemies to stand a chance against the enemy. If they can unite, they might just have a chance of stopping the machines from wiping out humanity on Earth and the Moon.

Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects, and cinematic music!

Performed by Michael John Casey, Tony Nam, Wyn Delano, Christopher Davenport, Kelly Baskin, Terence Aselford, Matthew Bassett, Kimberly Gilbert, Danny Gavigan, Anthony Palmini, Bradley Foster Smith, Mark Harrietha, Dan Delgado, Christopher Stinson, David Cui, Cui, Steven Carpenter, Ryan Haugen, Tyler Hyrchuk, Gregory Linington, Laura C. Harris, Karenna Foley, Nora Achrati, Adrian Garcia, Christopher Walker, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Michael Glenn, Yasmin Tuazon, Earl Fisher, Steve Wannall, Rayner Gabriel, Donald Guzzi, Scott McCormick, Elena Anderson, Megan Hastie, James Konicek, Kenneth Jackson, Holly Adams, and Drew Kopas.

©2021 Nicholas Sansbury Smith (P)2025 Graphic Audio LLC

E-Day Dark of the Moon part 1

AI seems to have destroyed free humanity in a vicious attack on Earth. Shadow Squad is scattered.
This book series is amazing. Is AI salvation or has it led us to our doom?

🔥🔥🔥

Engines are salvation 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 love this series!! I absolutely love Shadow Squad!!! Great production, love that it’s Dramatized Audio, plus narration! Scoring is on fire!! Absolutely love the Actors 🤌🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Story Good, Background Music Terrible

The voice acting and story are very good but the person who decided background music was necessary, needs to be fired. It is bad, really bad, distracting, makes the audio book unlistenable most of the time. Am I supposed to be hosting a techno-rave party the entire time?

Good story, terrible background music

The story was good but the background music was obtrusive and unnecessary. It really was distracting and added nothing to the story.