Homeward Bound Audiobook (Free)

With his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a sensational vision of what might have been-and what might still be-if one moment ever sold were changed. In the Worldwar and Colonization series, a historical, highly advanced alien species discovered itself locked inside a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious world: Earth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for success supercharged individual technology, made close friends of foes, and changed allies into bitter enemies.

For about Homeward Bound the aliens known as the Race, the discord has yielded dire implications. Mankind has developed nuclear technology years ahead of schedule, forcing the invaders to accept an uneasy truce with nations that contain the technology to guard themselves. Nonetheless it is the People in america, with their primitive inventiveness, who locate a way to launch themselves through faraway space-and reach the Race’s home planet itself.

Now-in the twenty-first century-a few daring men and women begin a journey zero individual has created before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles-the humans who get to the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on the strange world and at the center of the flash point with terrifying potential. Because of their arrival over the alien home world may drive the enemy to make the greatest decision-to annihilate a whole planet, instead of allow the individual contagion to spread. It might be that nothing can deter them from this course.

Using its extraordinary cast of characters-human, nonhuman, and some in between-Homeward Bound is a fascinating contemplation of cultures, armies, and individuals in collision. From the man whom USA Today provides known as ‘the leading writer of alternative history,’ that is a novel of vision, adventure, and constant, astounding surprise.