Readjustment Sci-Fi Audiobook (PAID): Recasting 2 Roles
Project Overview
I am re-casting two roles for a sample audiobook version of my novel, Readjustment. I will be producing the first three chapters as a proof of concept (possibly more, depending on the response).
If you auditioned the first time and weren't cast, please do audition again!
For more information, the book site is live at: readjustmentbook.com
Good-quality recordings with minimal static are appreciated. Be aware that Helen's lines have some profanity.
BOOK BLURB:
Helen Bach has everything an aspiring supervillain could ask for: a tragic backstory, a talent for building murderous automata, and very little in the way of a conscience. An engineering prodigy, Helen joins up with Steel City—a once-powerful shadow government that has employed her family for generations—with plans to restore the technocratic oligarchy to its former glory.
But this is the City, a metropolis where masked vigilantes run rampant, and Helen finds herself targeted by a group of self-styled heroes with a penchant for experimenting on human brains. The vigilantes abduct, imprison, and subject Helen to involuntary neurological “improvements”—paralyzing her with fear and physical pain if she attempts to build complex machinery. Unknown to the vigilantes, however, their added attempt to wipe her memory fails, leaving Helen with hobbled engineering skills and a rapidly deteriorating mental state, but a desire for revenge that’s stronger than ever. Supposedly reformed, Helen plays the part of faithful assistant to her captors, all the while plotting to overcome her debilitating reactions to machinery and get back to her promising career in evil. But when one of the vigilantes decides he’d like to “save” the City the way his friends saved Helen, the aspiring supervillain might just have to act the hero herself to stop him taking over the world.
That is—if she doesn’t lose her mind first.
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A brilliant engineer and aspiring supervillain, Helen is the orphaned daughter of a drug kingpin and an illegal arms dealer—and accordingly ruthless in pursuit of her goals. A consummate actress, lying is second nature.
Medium-pitched voice; wide emotional range.
(rallying her troops) You’re the best minds in the City. Some of the best in the world. And when our leviathan takes the Summit in two months, there won’t be anyone, anyone, on this godforsaken planet who can stand against us. We’re done hiding underground. We’re done biding our time. We will say to all the would-be potentates of this wretched place: look on our works, ye mighty, and despair! We’re Steel Fucking City! And we’re fucking back!
(cool, confident) You should know, I have a dead man’s switch—for lack of a non-gendered phrase to describe it. I guess I could say ‘dead person,’ but it’s not nearly as evocative, is it? Regardless. It’s a weapons system. Long-range missiles targeted on Steel City outposts across the country, programmed to launch automatically if I don’t disarm them at specific intervals of time. Attempt to alter me, kill me, or keep me here against my will, and your organization will lose more infrastructure in ten minutes than you’ve lost in the last century. And from what I’ve seen... You can’t afford that.
(anguished, then desperate and furious) Why? Why? Why why why why why ...
You should have killed me! I begged you! I begged you to kill me! ... I’ll die before you touch me again you fucking psycho!
A vigilante of questionable humanity, !N (the exclamation point is silent) was an undergraduate computer science major before he started replacing pieces of his brain with circuitry and turned himself into a cyborg. And in an effort to stop her gaining control of the City, !N masterminded the brain surgery performed on Helen.
Monotone, precise speech; robotic.
Your levity is a screen for fear, but ultimately transparent. Our intercourse would be more efficient if you spoke seriously.
I have already updated my belief distribution, Rex. Even old man Bayes must have known he was probably a Boltzmann Brain. What I am not understanding is the motivation. What value system sees utility in simulating a universe?
Your response is purely emotional. You are not acting rationally.
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