The Lifeboat at the End of the Universe

by Simon Brading

[kalventure]

🌟 Friends this was such an amazing read! Set billions of years in the future, the last of humanity races against the Big Crunch (think of the big bang in reverse where the universe shrinks back up) in huge space ships called lifeboats to hopefully outrace the Big Crunch and recolonize, saving the human race.

The Lifeboat at the End of the Universe is excellently paced and still manages to describe in depth the world (er, ship) around the characters, as well as giving the characters a lot of depth - no small feat given this short story is all of 123 pages and many novels take this long to develop characters! Brading's writing is succinct but descriptive and mesmerizing, and once I picked up the book I was not able to put it down. Seriously this is written so well with the suspense of a thriller. There's not much that I am able to say without spoilers, but this is a riveting read and I highly encourage it to lovers of science fiction. 🚀

At the beginning I was wondering if this was going to be a similar plot to the video game Soma.

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