Lost Horizons

di Maarten van Hoevelakenb (Autore)

Celestial Publishing, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning light filtered through the cracked windows of what had once been the Riverside Community Center, casting long shadows across the debris-strewn floor where Elena Vasquez knelt beside her makeshift garden. Three years had passed since the Great Collapse, when the power grids failed simultaneously across seven continents, plunging humanity into a darkness that went far deeper than the absence of electricity. The tomato seedlings she tended now grew in soil mixed with ash from countless fires, their green leaves a defiant splash of color against the gray monotony that had become the world. Elena brushed dirt from her calloused hands and stood, her back protesting the movement. At thirty-two, she felt decades older, worn down by the constant struggle for survival and the weight of responsibility for the dozen souls who looked to her for guidance. The irony wasn't lost on her that she, who had spent her career as a software engineer debugging code in climate-controlled offices, now found herself leading a small community of survivors through the aftermath of civilization's complete breakdown. "The water purification system is acting up again," called Marcus Chen from across the main hall. The former physics professor had become their resident engineer by necessity, his theoretical knowledge gradually transformed into practical survival skills through trial and countless errors. His voice carried the exhaustion they all felt, the bone-deep weariness of people who had been running on empty for far too long. Elena nodded and made her way over to where Marcus stood beside their jerry-rigged filtration system, a complex arrangement of sand, charcoal, and salvaged components that turned the murky river water into something approaching drinkable. The machine wheezed and gurgled like a dying animal, its improvised parts held together more by hope than engineering.

• Autore: Maarten van Hoevelakenb
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 01:04:39
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Celestial Publishing
• EAN: 9798318250835

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