LUX-2: The Pod

About This Audiobook

Lux Blakely isn’t just your average precocious middle-schooler—he’s a tinkerer who refuses to accept the 'impossible.' When his dad’s classified work at NASA stirs up rumors of antigravity breakthroughs, Lux dives headfirst into his own gravimetric chaos, building a pod that defies the textbook. Ken Pence’s world feels lived-in: classrooms buzz with jargon, garage workshops stink of melted solder, and characters stumble over their own hubris. This isn’t science fiction as lecture hall metaphysics; it’s the raw thrill of a kid who doesn’t know the word 'can’t.' The audiobook, narrated with kinetic energy by Brian Holden, crackles with the urgency of a discovery unfolding in real time. Holden nails the duality of Lux’s world—equal parts wondrous and weary—especially in scenes where the boy’s manic energy crashes into the quiet dread of government surveillance. Pence’s prose is dense in the best way, packing technical sparks into every chapter without drowning the human core: a twelve-year-old’s obsession with the uncharted, the unchecked, the *just one more test* before bedtime.