Echoes of the Collapse

di Astrid Bjørndottir Haga (Autore)

Celestial Publishing, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning mist clung to the skeletal remains of what had once been downtown Portland like a shroud, refusing to lift even as the pale sun climbed higher into the gray sky. Maya Chen pressed her back against the cold concrete wall of the abandoned pharmacy, listening for any sound that might indicate movement in the street beyond. Three years had passed since the Great Silence, as the survivors called it, and still she found herself holding her breath in moments like these, waiting for the world to remember how to make noise again. The silence wasn't complete, of course. Wind still whispered through broken windows, rain still drummed against twisted metal, and her own heartbeat still thundered in her ears when fear took hold. But the absence of human voices, of car engines, of the thousand small sounds that had once comprised the symphony of civilization—that silence pressed down on everything like a physical weight. Maya adjusted the worn leather strap of her scavenging pack and peered around the corner. The street stretched empty before her, littered with the detritus of the old world: rusted vehicles whose batteries had died when the electromagnetic pulse hit, scattered papers bleached white by three seasons of weather, and the ever-present weeds that seemed to grow faster now, as if nature itself was eager to reclaim what humanity had built. She had come here looking for medical supplies. Her settlement, a collection of reinforced shipping containers and salvaged materials hidden in the industrial district, was running low on antibiotics. Winter was approaching, and with it would come the usual cycle of respiratory infections that claimed at least one or two of their number each year.

• Autore: Astrid Bjørndottir Haga
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 01:27:51
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Celestial Publishing
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318403026