A History of What Comes Next

Author Sylvain Neuvel
Narrator various
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 4 March 2021
Run Time 9 hours and 22 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Alternative history fiction, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: military, Second World War fiction, Warfare and defence.

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Imagine everything you thought you knew about human progress was wrong. What would you do?

Mia is not sure what she is, but she isn't human. Smarter, stronger than her peers, all she knows are the rules: there can never be three for too long; always run, never fight.

When she finds herself in Germany, 1945, she must turn the Nazi's most trusted scientist with an offer: abandon the crumbling Nazi party, escape Germany with your life, come to work for the Americans building rockets.

But someone is watching her work. An enemy who's smarter, stronger, decidedly not human and prepared to do anything to retrieve something ancient that was long lost.

If only she had any idea what it was . . .

© Sylvain Neuvel 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

It’s fascinating to see how Neuvel weaves together fact and fiction . . . a blast. Seriously clever

SFX

An alt-history with a difference. Traces the true story of the development of rocket science but adds an alien-conspiracy-theory edge in the shape of a fictional team of mother-daughter clones. Along with the problems faced by women trying to change the world (or at least get men to listen to them), they are threatened by a mysterious ‘Tracker’ who has spent centuries trying to kill them. Good fun

Guardian

A dark and ambitious book. Neuvel is forging ahead

SFX Magazine

Wry narration, wired action . . . Fans of alternate history and intelligent sci-fi will love this

Publishers Weekly

Clever and compelling, it will keep you enthralled until the end

Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Oppenheimer Alternative

There’s real cleverness at work here. Mia, bent on getting humanity sufficiently technologically developed so that they can leave Earth, makes some dodgy-sounding moral choices as she works towards humanity’s salvation

The Times

Highly crafted and unique

Library Journal

A blast. Seriously clever fun

SFX

Praise for the THEMIS FILES

A stellar debut which masterfully blends sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction. So much more than the sum of its parts – a page-turner of the highest order

Kirkus Reviews

Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, this is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars

Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising

Captivating

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