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A Man from Planet Earth Audiobook Summary

Sometime in the not-too-distant future … unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.

While this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members, matters change entirely when the confederation is threatened by some unknown entity–is the menace real or imagined? The confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate to Earth to hire one of the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to investigate and to revive the confederation’s long-unused starfleet. The Earthman agrees, but demands a high price: should he succeed, the confederation will have to accept Earth as a new member. As the threat becomes ever more acute, the question soon becomes which mission will prove harder–saving the confederation or convincing it to accept the deal!

The extensive appendix, written in nontechnical language, reviews the scientific and technological topics underlying the plot–ranging from the Fermi Paradox, space travel, and artificial/collective intelligence to theories on possible universal convergences in technological and biological development.

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A Man from Planet Earth Audiobook Narrator

Steven Crossley is the narrator of A Man from Planet Earth audiobook that was written by Giancarlo Genta

Steven Crossley is one of a select group of narrators who have recorded over two hundred audiobooks. He has won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie and Sharpe’s Fury by Bernard Cornwell. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has established an acting career on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, television, film, and radio drama, performing with distinguished theater companies in New York and London. He is a member of the internationally acclaimed company Complicite. His audiobook performances cover an eclectic range of subjects in both fiction and nonfiction, from thrillers, mysteries, classics, and histories to children’s fantasy and biographies.These include works by such writers as Pat Barker, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Sebastian Faulkes, Zadie Smith, Ian McKewan, and Tana French.

About the Author(s) of A Man from Planet Earth

Giancarlo Genta is the author of A Man from Planet Earth

A Man from Planet Earth Full Details

Narrator Steven Crossley
Length 14 hours 42 minutes
Author Giancarlo Genta
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 19, 2024
ISBN 9781799916598

Subjects

The publisher of the A Man from Planet Earth is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General, Science Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the A Man from Planet Earth is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781799916598.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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