The Object | Podium Audio

The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

Performed by: Nicol Zanzarella

Released: May 07, 2024

Language: English

Format: Single Narration

Duration: 11 hr, 59 min

Deep space holds secrets…
…and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.
But it’s not what she thinks.
Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data, and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn’t make sense. Could there be an extraterrestrial object in our solar system?
She followed protocol.
The scientific community didn’t believe her.
And before she knew what happened, her career was over.
The day that changed Melody’s life was like any other over the previous two years. She’d found she had a gift for writing, and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed.
Something was nearing Saturn…
…and it was slowing down.
Had she been right about the object?
You’ll love this hard science fiction novel because Melody is about to find out that everything she knew about space and time was wrong.

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Author:

Joshua T. Calvert

Joshua T. Calvert has traveled the world—on foot, by Jeep, by bicycle, by motorcycle, and lots of other ways besides. As you might imagine, he’s seen many things most people never see – including an Iranian prison cell, from the inside! In Kyrgyzstan, he fared slightly better, narrowly avoiding being kidnapped for ransom. Skydiver, scuba diver, martial artist, adventurer – his goal is to experience everything possible, and then make it real to you in his books. And he’s made a good run of it so far: in the Philippines, he did police training on multiple types of firearms (despite being no fan of guns himself); dove in Asian waters among sharks and shipwrecks; and patrolled with Sumatran jungle rangers. That’s what defines Calvert’s approach to method writing: pushing himself beyond his own limits, to experience first-hand what his characters experience, to make your immersion in his stories as deep as it can be. For Ganymede Rises, after a slight detour with some smugglers in the deserts of Uzbekistan and the steppes of Mongolia, he traveled by dogsled and snowshoe to the Arctic Circle to experience first-hand what it’s like to be utterly isolated in the coldest place on Earth. For his book The Fossil, he sat with professional pilots in flight simulators for Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft to learn what it’s like to fly a passenger jet. His latest adventure: a parabolic flight with European Space Agency astronauts, to experience zero-gravity. All so he can describe it to you, in his own words.

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PERFORMER:

Nicol Zanzarella

An actress and storyteller, Nicol is a multi-award winning narrator of over 300 audiobooks, and narrates audio description of film and television for the blind and low vision community, for the likes of Lucas Film Ltd, Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and Hulu to name a few. Originally from Yonkers, NY, she loves making her grandmother's marinara sauce, has an equal taste for time in the boxing gym or on the yoga mat, and is usually seen with a hot cup of coffee in her hand.

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