Written by Diana Kemp-Jones, read by Rachael Drummond.
In a future world, an amoral elite class is threatened by an unconventional plague and protected by immune, conscripted trackers. (Explicit language, violence and sexuality)
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I had to listen to this twice, I guess I was distracted on the first go ’round. The whole amoral elite class thing reminded me of a movie I believe was called West World. We humans love stories about intelligent life forms that lose the great war with us; we love to be the underdog. But I wonder…
Errr…average. It was hardley original, but the idea of a podcast story borrowing(ripping off) from Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Cyborg saved it for me.