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Intelligent Design

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Intelligent Design

By: David Spicer
Narrated by: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Edward Bluemel, Erin Doherty
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About this listen

At a shadowy company (Karoli Robotics Corporation) owned by a Sillicon Valley billionaire, a scientist named Jim creates an AI that can fool the Turing test at the same time as his colleague, Daniel, successfully synthesizes DNA in a test tube. Daniel's attempts to reanimate dead chimps using his discovery have been unsuccessful, but when his friend Laura Bocelli is killed by being trapped inside a lab freezer, Daniel is presented with the perfect specimen. However, Laura is irreparably brain dead.

Daniel and Jim join forces to reanimate Laura using the DNA technology as well as the AI, creating a brilliant but psychopathic new Laura.

A year later a young journalist starts digging into the new CEO of Karoli Robotics Corporation, Laura Bocelli, and finds more than she bargained for. Laura will do anything to protect her secret and her plan to engineer a race of AI Cyborgs made in her image.

Featuring: Sara Alexander, John Ammirati, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Edward Bluemel, Erin Doherty, Adam Fitzgerald, Mark Holden, Ryan Forde Iosco, Sandra-mae Luykx, Stuart Milligan, Elizabeth Moynihan, Christopher Ragland, Anna Rust, Derek Siow, Robert G Slade and Wyatt Warner.

©2020 Audible, Ltd (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Science Fiction Scary Intelligent Design

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About the performers

Kingsley Ben-Adir

Rising star Kingsley has graced our screens in the popular BBC drama Peaky Blinders and the Netflix series The OA as well as in films such as Noelle, The Commuter and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

Edward Bluemel

Before making his screen debut in 2017, Edward Bluemel trained at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. His TV credits include Killing Eve, A Discovery of Witches and Sex Education.

Erin Doherty

Winner of the Evening Standard Rising Star award in 2018, Erin’s star turn as Princess Anne in Netflix’s The Crown has led to critical acclaim. She has also appeared in Call the Midwife and Les Miserables.

About the author

David Spicer has written numerous audio series, including three series of Double Income No Kids Yet, starring David Tennant and the comedy series Three Off the Tee (both available on Audible).
He has written for dozens of UK TV shows, writing material for (among others) Jasper Carrott, Michael Barrymore, Paul O’Grady and Armstrong & Miller. He wrote various episodes of the children’s cartoon show, Chuggington and scripted the first Miss World contest to be recorded in China.
His stage plays, which are regularly performed in Britain and across Europe, include Long Live the Mad Parade, Stop!...the Play and Raising Martha. He has written two short films, Beast and Two Minutes.

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Well acted interesting modern tech based story which you could imagine happening one dsy soon

Good story

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Very enjoyable, entertaining and well acted book, this definitely needs expanding upon further I would gladly pay for sequel to this.

Highly recommended!!!

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For such a short story… it’s full of morality issues and mystery! Considering it is only speech through the characters I enjoyed it’s take on story telling!

Thoroughly brilliant

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The story is great, but the description spoils the ending. One of the main villains , whom you only find out about in the last chapter , is casually spoiled by the book description. Audible if you are reading this , please don’t spoil the book!

Other than that the actors are great as well - great audio drama

Great story but spoiled by the description

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Excellent performance from all the narrators, but unfortunately let down by some odd and clunky editing, especially in later chapters.

Story itself was a interesting concept written very well, unfortunately seemed a little short and the ending was somewhat abrupt.

Great Performance, Good Story, Odd Editing

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Excellent performance, good soundtrack. The story, although entertaining, is rather predictable. Overall I enjoyed it.

Pretty good

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keeps you listening, good performance, interesting story. worth a try for anyone that likes science fiction.

a good listen

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Really enjoyed this with its characters and the different narrators. Felt the end could have been developed further.

Great story and Characters

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The story was just getting started, then it ended. Why on Earth did they feel the need to break it up with constant credits and advertising, extremly frustrating. the bad syth soundtrack was rubbish. the story would have been great if it didnt end when it started and was simply narrated.

Good story ruined by constant credits

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This story is well produced and compelling enough that I was keen to listen to the end, however the plot is not particularly sophisticated and I guessed the villain very early. An entertaining listen that doesn't require a lot of mental application to be enjoyable. Reminded me a lot of a dr. who script.

Compelling listening but predictable

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