"A SCIENTIFIC THRILLER WHERE IMMORTALITY COMES AT A TERRIFYING COST'What if curing aging was humanity’s greatest breakthrough—and its deadliest mistake?'
In The Serpent’s Embrace, John Hands crafts a heart-pounding scientific thriller that pits cutting-edge genetics against corporate greed, ancient mythology, and moral decay. Narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman & Claire Glover and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, this audiobook plunges you into a world where immortality is within reach—but the price is your soul.
WHY YOU’LL BE HOOKED: Science Gone Rogue:
- Dr. Richard Trent, a visionary cancer researcher, discovers the anti-aging gene—but his breakthrough threatens a pharmaceutical empire that will kill to bury it.
Myth Meets Madness:
- Maria Snowe, a biotech entrepreneur worshipped as the reincarnation of the serpent goddess Ixchel, offers Richard unlimited funding—if he surrenders to her chilling condition.
A Deadly Choice:
- As suspicious deaths pile up, Richard’s assistant Lucy Jonnsen battles Maria for his conscience. Will he sacrifice his integrity for immortality—or watch his life’s work die?
PERFECT FOR FANS OF:
- Jurassic Park meets The Da Vinci Code
- Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter (with a genetic twist)
- Michael Crichton’s ethical science nightmares
Published by Audiobook Publishing Services, The Serpent’s Embrace isn’t just a novel—it’s a warning wrapped in a page-turner.
Listen Now—Before It’s Too Late."
"This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.
In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny.
Listeners embark on a fascinating journey in which Hands evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories—extinction, survival, and transformation—before making his own unique and astonishing forecast."
"The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.
Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?
John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind.
This astonishing book provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene, and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest possible prose it differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields such as string theory to approach a unified theory of everything. In doing so it challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma.
Its striking analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexification, and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution.
This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking."
