SFFaudio’s got another big scoop for you. There’s a new podcast novel that’s just launched and it taps into a multiplicity of great SF ideas – politics, technology, bio-ethics, cloning and memory replication. Intrigued? Check it out…
7th Son, Book One: Descent
By J.C. Hutchins; Read by J. C. Hutchins
24 MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Podiobooks.com / JCHutchins.net
Published: Commenced February 2006
7th Son, Book One: Descent is the story of seven men, all strangers, who’ve been gathered together following the assassination of the president of the United States. Though they’ve never met before they seem to have something very important in common, namely identical childhood memories! It seems they were the progeny of a covert human cloning experiment – now, brought together for the first time since their creation, all seven of these “John Michael Smiths” are tasked with tracking down the assassin who murdered the president. Something they are uniquely equiped to do because their target is the man they were cloned from; the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha.
I got a sneak pre-hear of the first five chapters and I can attest this is no pale replication of any SF thriler you’ve heard before. Hutchins’ prose is lucent, his ideas original 7th Son, Book One: Descent blends the verve of Philip K. Dick with the slick modern storytelling techniques of Lincoln Child.
You can subscirbe to the podcast directly using this XML feed:
http://www.jchutchins.net/7thSonPodcast.xml
Or you can subscribe through the terrific Podiobooks.com service for a more customizable delivery schedule.