Ashes or Ascension is a gripping full-length science fiction audiobook exploring the price of survival at the edge of extinction.
📖 PLOT OUTLINE:
On the failed colony world of Alecton-IV, humanity clings to life after a catastrophic terraforming collapse. The Galactic Coalition returns after decades of silence—not to help, but to issue a final command: surrender the planet or face total sterilization within seventy-two hours.
Mara Vex, a hardened salvager, discovers a buried override protocol that could reboot the planet’s biosphere—at the cost of half the colony’s lives. As she unlocks the Memory Forge and activates an emergent AI called EIDOLON, she is faced with an impossible choice: fight extinction with honesty, or deceive the universe to survive.
Meanwhile, a mysterious figure named Kael emerges from the jungle, questioning what makes humanity worth saving—and warning that survival without conscience may not be survival at all.
As time runs out and the sky fills with Coalition warships, Mara must decide who to trust, what she’s willing to become, and whether a lie can save a future worth living in.
🪐 Genre:
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi, AI ethics, HFY (Humanity F*** Yeah), philosophical space drama, terraforming gone wrong.
🎙️ Voice-friendly pacing | Designed for immersive listening
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