Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Calhoun is a Med Service man, trained to carry medicine and public health to far-flung human worlds, and he is proud of doing a job where mistakes can cost lives. Then a simple human blunder in the navigation system punches his small ship off course into uncharted space, leaving him and his sharp-tempered, tree-climbing companion Murgatroyd with no clear route home. Their forced landing drops them onto a bleak colony world where a strange, glowing ribbon stretches across the sky, warming a narrow band of habitable land like an artificial sunrise. The settlers below are not united by their miracle of survival: they are split into rival communities, sealed off by terror of infection and obsessed with keeping outsiders away. As Calhoun investigates, he finds that the real danger is not only physical illness but a creeping social sickness born of isolation, rumor, and panic. When a desperate young couple tries to cross forbidden boundaries, Calhoun is pulled into a volatile clash of fear, medicine, and politics, and must use science, empathy, and nerve to keep a fragile world from breaking apart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:35) Chapter 02

(00:50:25) Chapter 03

(01:23:40) Chapter 04

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