About the audiobook:
The Worldship Humility is the start of The Code trilogy, written
exclusively for audio by sci-fi author R. R. Haywood. Narrator Colin
Morgan (best known for playing the title character BBC's fantasy series
Merlin) brings the colourful characters and treacherous escapades of
The Worldship Humility to life, a gripping space adventure which will
appeal to fans of Ready Player One, Bladerunner and Haywood's
previous best-selling works, Extracted and The Undead.
Summary:
It's been 120 years since the 50 or so worldships containing the few
million survivors set off after planet Earth was destroyed by a meteor.
On the Worldship Humility, Sam, an Airlock Operative, is bored. Living
in space should be full of adventure, except it isn't, and he fills his
time hacking 3-D movie posters.
Petty thief Yasmine Dufont is also from the WS Humility, but she is
not bored. Growing up in the Elfors, the lawless lower levels of the
ship, has seen her surrounded by violence and squalor since birth, and
now she wants out. She wants to escape to the luxury of the Ab-Spa on
top of WS Abstinence, where they eat real food instead of rats and
synth cubes.
Meanwhile, the sleek-hulled, unmanned Gagarin has come back from
punching out ahead of the fleet in the ever-continuing search for a new
home. Nearly all hope is lost that a new planet will ever be found,
until the Gagarin returns with a code of information that suggests a
habitable planet has been found. This news should be shared with the
whole fleet, but a few rogue captains want to keep the information to
themselves and colonise the new planet.
When Yasmine inadvertently steals the code, she and Sam become caught up
in a dangerous game of murder, corruption, political wrangling
and...porridge, with sex-addicted Detective Zhang Woo hot on their
heels, his own life at risk if he fails to get the code back.
About the author:
R. R. Haywood is the author of Amazon UK's number one horror series The
Undead, which propelled him into the top 20 best-selling Amazon authors
in the UK. Haywood is a Washington Post best-selling author and both
the Undead series and the Extracted trilogy are Audible best sellers.
About the narrator:
Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and the Dead,
The Fall and Merlin. His film credits include Benjamin, The Happy
Prince, Legend and Testament of Youth. Theatre credits include
Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre);
Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe);
Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer for My Daughter and All
About My Mother (The Old Vic).
