Aelita

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Somewhere in the silence between radio transmissions, the engineer Los decoded a single word: Aelita. Where it came from, what it meant, who had sent it - these questions organized the rest of his life. He built a spacecraft, recruited a Red Army soldier named Gusev who was interested in a different kind of question entirely, and left the Earth.

Mars is a dying world, governed by a ruling class called the Toltecs whose relationship to the laboring p...