The Map of the Sky: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds can be transformed from the task of one writer’s imagination into a terrifying fact for all mankind.

1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only when he first accepts her audacious task: to replicate the Martian invasion presented in H. G. Wells’s well-known novel The Battle of the Worlds. In the mean time in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made aware of certain objects, about The Map from the Sky: A Book apparently of extraterrestrial origin, that were uncovered decades previously an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. On that same expedition was an American staff member called Edgar Allan Poe, whose inexplicable encounters in the freezing wasteland would ultimately inspire him to make one of his most enduring functions of literature.

When eerie, alien-looking cylinders begin appearing in London, Wells is certain it is most a part of some elaborate hoax. But shortly, to his great horror, he realizes a true invasion of Earth has indeed started. As brave bands of residents converge on a crumbling London to defend it against utter wreck, Emma and her suitor must confront the enigma that is their like, a bright spark of hope even against the darkening light of apocalypse.

Palma dazzled readers with his quick NY Times bestseller The Map of Time. In The Map from the Sky, he embarks on an even more thrilling speculative trip, one that links the planet earth and the heavens, the familiar and the bizarre, the difficult and the inevitable.