Finished episode 1 of the Native Sun audiobook. You can listen to it for free on my Patreon.

Small description:

Native Sun follows a crew of Black, queer fugitives getting in way over their heads in a bid to settle their debt with the United Colonies of Terrex, and earn their right to make a home on solid ground.

Big description:

25-year old flunky star-naught Captain Jean Sable is the government’s biggest wasted investment. A lifelong slacker and part-time thief who escaped their boss and owner, the United Colonies Secretary of Space five years prior in a crumbling cosmocraft that was slated for demolition, Jean has no license to fly, no clearance to make a home on any planet in the galaxy, and no way to admit to their closeknit crew that they’re still seeing their on-again off-again ex, the Secretary’s high-ranking, decorated, overachieving daughter Consulwoman Antiope. As Jean finally resolves to come clean to the crew of the Kylix: Optimistic First Mate Cadbury, gothic team medic Ush, and uppity extraterrestrial translator Pool, the tightwoven four are faced with the most dangerous challenge the cold, hostile Milky Way has hurtled at them, yet–Besides from that time the toilet overflowed, frying the anti-gravity suppressor: A bottled, artificial black hole–an illegal, highly volatile weapon of galactic destruction Antiope recovered from an interstellar crime scene to keep out of her warmongering father. Jean has their own ideas for the weapon, use it to finally settle their debt with the Secretary, then settle down with their friends on a distant moon. Not by surrendering it, but by selling it to the highest bidder. This plan works best on paper rather than in practice, though, as the black hole draws in every hardened space-farer with need for the most destructive item in the universe and no intention, whatsoever, of paying for it. Propelling the band of small-time thieves onto the galactic stage, and onto a direct collision course with Jean’s former boss, current owner, and future father in-law, the relentless, powerful Secretary.

THE WASTE OF SPACE RECORDS: NATIVE SUN is a fast-paced, action-packed, ensemble-driven adult Sci-Fi adventure for readers who enjoy the rebellious yet contemplative futuristic atmosphere of Cowboy Bebop, as well as the anti-capitalist narrative of The Dispossessed.

It was absolutely grueling to render this audio :D I kind of roll my eyes at my DJ friends at how into it they are but I come out with a new appreciation for this passion of theirs, cuz I don't think even Mozart would be able to render music electronically given the tools we have today.