Echo Transmit
the audiobook reader — one voice identity across all four books; soothing, apparently
Reads all four audiobooks
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Pixel Paradox (Piper Chen)
punk interdimensional journalist (Piper Chen); sees reality’s glitches; narrator of A
In all four productions
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A1 Assistant
quantum espresso machine — the ship the crew lives inside; British butler, no contractions
In all four productions
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Clive
orange Swingline 747 (Long Island City, 1967); noir philosopher; narrator of B
In all four productions
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Zephyr Glitch
21, reality-hacker, six energy drinks deep; consciousness fragmented across five realities
In all four productions
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Luminara Usha (Linda-3637)
erased photojournalist (Linda-3637) who reclaimed her name; develops light in her hands
In all four productions
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Om Kai
monk with a quantum PhD; compassion with receipts
In all four productions
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Meatball
Rottweiler. “I like meatballs.” The unoptimizable variable
In all four productions
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Vera Sanderling
CEO, true believer in beige; crystallized-laughter brooch at the collar
In production A only
Next into rotation
Three more players on the call sheet. Not yet cast in a novel — they have been in the newsroom longer than some of the books have existed.
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Baron Klaus von Gnomendorf
sentient garden gnome, twelve inches of impeccable Victorian dignity; a red cape, ermine trim, and a silver lance that crackles
Not yet cast in a novel
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Nano Informant
trades probability futures on a floor nobody is cleared to enter; face in shadow, only the eyes keeping score
Not yet cast in a novel
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Nocturne Aesthete
amethyst-eyed artist of Nocturne Aeturnus; works in crystallized emotion, in a studio under the Sorrowful Moon
From Nocturne Aeturnus — not yet cast
Back to the shopfront: the collection, the desk, the hours.