Book of Strange New Things
A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation
- author
- Michel Faber
- Narrator
- Miscellaneous
- Length
- 2 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 20279
- Categories
- Science Fiction
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
Peter is a devoted husband and man of faith who is called to the mission of a lifetime - one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Beatrice. Hired as a preacher by an enigmatic corporation called USIC, he must leave behind everything he loves to travel to the far distant planet of Oasis, where the company has its base. The native inhabitants welcome Peter to their settlement, and are eager to hear the teachings of the Bible.
But in his absence, climate change has wreaked devastation on Peter's home planet. Letters from his wife tell of food shortages, natural disasters and societal breakdown - and as survival on Earth becomes more and more difficult, the distance between Peter and Beatrice grows ever vaster.