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By: Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by: Eliza Summers, Paul Boehmer
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The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants.

“I’m you now. We all are.”

When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at Booker’s donut shop and bites Booker on the arm, it’s about the most interesting thing to happen in the small city of Marquette, Michigan in years.

But that’s only the beginning of the story. Carole and Booker find their minds merging in a collective that extends to include Carole’s husband Shivansh and local doctor Evelyn Schlapp. The four of them become the beginning of something larger and stranger than they could ever have imagined.

©2025 Sylvain Neuvel First Contact Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Science Fiction
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I don't mind political content in fiction when it helps drive the story but here it's just peppered throughout for no particular reason and for no particular benefit to the story.

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