Download the Free Space: 1999 Annual Breakaway Audiobook!

Step back into the retrofuture world of 1999 with our free digital audiobook of Space: 1999's classic opening story, Breakaway! This authentic retelling of the infamous Breakaway event, narrated by Nicholas Briggs, is taken from the very first Space: 1999 annual and recounts the events of the cataclysmic event that tears the Moon from Earth orbit.

Norstrom and Steiner supervise the lowering of the huge drums of atomic waste sent up from Earth to the safe burial ground at Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2. They've done it a hundred times before and control the operation with careful, but casual efficiency. And yet, within the pulsating heart of Main Mission - the central control area of Moonbase Alpha - the atmosphere is abnormally tense...

This succinct and dramatic prose-based encapsulation of the Breakaway event originally opened the 1975 Space: 1999 annual, which was written and produced by TV Century 21 script editor/Look-in writer Angus Allan. Allan would go onto single-handedly write four of the five Space: 1999 annuals from the 1970s, and was the main writer on Look-in's classic Space: 1999 comic strip. Our audiobook production of Breakaway is also brought to life through Nicholas Briggs' authentic sound design and music.

Celebrate Breakaway Day with this free digital audiobook download detailing the beginning of Moonbase Alpha's fantastic odyssey through the cosmos! Be sure to check out the other releases in our Breakaway Day collection, including All Sections Alpha: The Making of Space: 1999, the 50th Anniversary Golden Eagle, and the Space: 1999 Breakaway 4K Collectors Edition Steelbook!

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