#absolution gap

2050 – 2080: period of great expansion into the solar system. By 2069 twelve million people live off Earth; mainly around Earth and the Moon. Smaller settlements dotted around whole system, out to fringes of Kuiper Belt. Political fragmentation and social unrest follows massive breakthroughs in bio-sciences.

2081: increasingly violent police actions against rogue states lead to retaliatory actions; onset of war. Emergence of “chimeric” factions: heavily bio-engineered and cyborgized human splinter groups.

2083: ceasefire. Departure of flotilla of colony ships for 61 Cygni-A. At 1/8th of the speed of light, they will not arrive until the twenty-third century.

2090 – 2110: establishment of early colonies on a number of extrasolar planets via Von Neumann robots carrying fertilised human cells. Most such societies fail within two or three generations. End of so-called Amerikano era.

2110-2140: period of turmoil; solar system convulsed by more wars. Emergence of Demarchist states in 2141 signals new era of peace and prosperity. Solar luminosity begins to drop, heralding a new ice age on Earth.

2145 – Nevil Clavain born on Earth.

2155 – first Demarchist settlements around Jupiter. Great freeze sets in on Earth.

2161 – Sandra Voi leads first human expedition into Europa’s ocean

2178 – Great Wall of Mars project begins. Unease at extreme neural experiments being conducted under Demarchist aegis leads to formation of the Earth-based Coalition for Neural Purity; a military pact of conservative states opposed to further technological or social innovation.

2182 – first phase of GWOM completed. Demarchists distance themselves from the more radical factions.

2190 – Experimenters on Mars initiate Transenlightenment. Birth of Conjoiner faction and immediate onset of Coalition-Conjoiner war.

2191 – ceasefire in Conjoiner-Coalition war brokered by Sandra Voi.

2191 – 2205; Conjoiner quarantine period.

2205 – Galiana’s Conjoiners escape from Mars. First relativistic starship constructed and launched from Mars orbit.

2205 – 2250; period of great expansion; numerous interstellar colonies established; recontact with surviving settlements from Amerikano era.

2217 – Conjoiner expedition to Diadem. Discovery of Setterholm’s Worms.

2340 – Denizen uprising; fall of the Europan cities.

2338 – Bernsdottir discovers first Shroud.

2351 – Dan Sylveste born in Chasm City, Yellowstone.

2358 – Shiva-Parvati cordon crisis.

2372 – the Eighty.

2373 – Philip Lascaille’s encounter with the Shroud in the Trans Tau Ceti sector.

2378 – Hostage crisis around Fand.

2405 – Departure of Sylveste expedition to Lascaille’s Shroud.

2415 – Departure of Galiana and Clavain’s expedition into deep space.

2441 – Return of Sylveste’s expedition to Lascaille’s Shroud.

2460 – Dan Sylveste vanishes from Yellowstone for 30 days.

2491 – departure of Resurgam expedition.

2510 – Melding Plague afflicts Chasm City; effective end of Demarchist era.

2517 – Tanner Mirabel arrives in Chasm City.

2524 – Ana Khouri arrives in Chasm City.

2541 – arrival of “Voice of Evening” around Turquoise.

2551 – outbreak of Conjoiner-Demarchist war around Yellowstone. Establishment of Ferrisville Convention.

2566 – abduction of Sylveste from Resurgam.

2567 – expedition into Cerberus/Hades artefact; death of Dan Sylveste.

2582 – Clavain’s return from deep space.

2605 – Galiana’s return from deep space.

2615 – Clavain defects from the Conjoiners. Exploitation of grub technology, including inertia suppression machinery.

2633 – Confrontation between Clavain and Volyova around Delta Pavonis

2651 – arrival of Nostalgia for Infinity around p Eridani system

2673 – Irravel Veda recloned from herself.

2675 – departure of Nostalgia for Infinity from Ararat

2650 – 2850 – events of the human-Inhibitor war

2931 – meeting between Irravel Veda and representative of the Nestbuilder intelligence.

2950 – Emergence of the Green Wave. Systematic dismantling of many solar systems.

3354 – Irravel Veda buries Mirsky in interstellar space.

It's taken me years to even find out the NAME of the narrator James Parsons and find out where these specific audiobooks were offered. I had to email RNIB and they were so lovely and basically told me to reach out to someone in the UK.

I'm aware of the John Lee audiobooks and they're my personal enemy, they've made it so very hard to track down the original audiobooks I heard and I hate the way he narrates.

I'm happy to send you any books/audiobooks I have, and I'm Australian so if you need some sort of equivalent exchange I'll try to do that!

Here are the links to the specific audiobooks I'm looking for

-https://www.rnibbookshare.org/book/5167759

-https://www.rnibbookshare.org/book/6877768

-https://www.rnibbookshare.org/book/3835216

Here's a bit of their reply to explain RNIB and that they are indeed cool with me doing this.

Huzzah, hullo, und howdy! Your MC here, Filip Magnus, reporting on a few of the books I plan on reading this month!  City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky I’m doing it, lads! At long last, I’m reading through the glorious New Weird fantasy Tchaikovsky’s about to release a standalone sequel of very soon indeed. The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan I genuinely have no clue if I’ll get to…