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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Anchor in the Dawn
Chapter 3: — The Ferryman of Prospera
Chapter 4: — Oranios and the Red A
Chapter 5: — Caeli Learns to Breathe
Chapter 6: — The Injection
Chapter 7: — The Paint That Erases
Chapter 8: — Nine Percent
Chapter 9: — The Empty Cell
Chapter 10: — The Sky Breaks
Description
Prospera is a sealed paradise: perfect weather, perfect health, perfect art—and perfect control. Citizens live long “iterations,” then ride a ferry to the Nursery to be reborn, memories wiped clean. Proctor Bennett, a respected ferryman who ushers retirees to the dock, believes in the system…until the day his own guardian, Malcolm Bennett, melts down at the pier and whispers a word no one should know: Oranios.
As Proctor’s dreams return and reality fractures, he follows a trail through missing records, erased people, a scarred girl who may not exist, and a clandestine movement on the Annex—only to discover that Prospera is not a country at all, but a constructed world inside a ship’s sleeping minds. The journey from paradise to truth becomes a race against time, memory, and power, with love—especially the love for a lost child—becoming the key that can collapse a false world and awaken a real one.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who like high-concept sci‑fi with emotional stakes: memory, identity, grief, and the ethics of “utopia.”
- Fans of twist-driven narratives (simulation/constructed reality) that still land a human, character-centered payoff.
- Readers who enjoy dystopian power systems, conspiracy pressure, and “what-if” tech that drives every choice.