Permafrost

The Russian accent of the audiobook narration is perfect and puts you right into the story. Which is time-travel, in a future gone cold, and from the perspective of a 70year old teacher who is a ‘pilot' sent back to the past attempting to fix things.

There's a stage-play precision to the almost-novella, with its limited set of characters and its tight focus on the plot, which I appreciated. Some stories need world building, others shine through a reduction to the essence. And despite the mechanical nature of the plot, there's still a lot of humanity in it, which comes from the first person perspective and the unique relationship at its center.