Purgatory Mount - Adam Roberts
Category: Thriller
Narrator: William Hope
Tags: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Length: 12h 15m, An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage., Its destination is V538 Aurigae, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere., The ships crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art?, Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante., In our near future, the United States is falling apart., A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses., But life goes on., For Ottoline Barrago, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottolines private network and
