Vessel
A Novel
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Vessel
Narrated by:
Lisa Flanagan, George Newbern
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Narrated by:
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Lisa Flanagan
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George Newbern
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Lisa A. Nichols
About this listen
After a deadly incident in deep space, Catherine Wells’s ship lost contact with NASA, and the whole world assumed everyone on board had perished. Miraculously—and mysteriously—Catherine survived, but with little memory of what happened. Despite the horrors she experienced, she was able to navigate home almost a decade after the mission began.
But her homecoming is not exactly what she imagined—not everyone at NASA is thrilled by her miraculous reappearance; her husband has moved on with another woman; and the young daughter she left behind is a resentful teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine is also different after her long and turbulent mission. There are periods of time she can’t account for, and she has haunting, unexplainable flashbacks of communicating with others... Suddenly she can’t trust any of her memories from space. How did her crewmates die. How and why did she survive? And was she ever truly alone up there?
If it hadn't had the opening quote, it wouldn't have been as bad.
"Perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian, an astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew in an inexplicable disaster in this tense, psychological thriller filled with “eerie and taut storytelling” (Newsweek). But is her version of what happened the truth…or is there more to the story?"
You invoke The Martian, but the only similarities are "lone person in space" (not giving any of these characters the title of astronaut, the pilot at one point isn't sure she can pilot the ship all by her lonesome. The geologist apparently had not dug any holes). Ok they mention an oxygenator a bit, and NASA is kind of there. That's it. That's the similarity to The Martian. The Martian is competence porn, this is absolutely not.
There's no real mystery, it's all telegraphed and you're told everything as it's revealed to the characters, and that would be fine if that's what you wanted! But that's not what I was sold.
Nothing like The Martian
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