The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.

Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

Not a casual listen

This was an interesting book. I think I need to listen to it again. It’s a complex story, that you can’t let your mind wander from. it helps if you have a little bit of knowledge of timetime travel theory,

great time travel story

great character amazing story. you will want to read it many times over. five stars

Great beginning then just petered out

This started out really interesting, wonderful concepts and set up. However it looks like the author wrote himself into a corner and couldn’t get out, and just had to add more and more ridiculous elements to try to keep the energy or whatever he was trying to do. It’s OK but I wouldn’t recommend buying this.

Very dark

I was not expecting so much gore. Very vivid depiction of gross stuff. The story line was interesting with a decent conclusion. Not my genre but worth my time.

Excellent! One teensy criticism

An interesting, well-written and complex story. It is sci-fi that doesn't attempt to explain the 'hows,' so readers should let go of any preconceptions/ intellectual quibbles. I wish I had not read the epilogue, which felt very tacked-on and after so many hours with the main character, completely unrealistic - more so than time and space travel. Still, would recommend 100 percent.