The Ophelia Network
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The Ophelia Network
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Narrated by:
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Khristine Hvam
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By:
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Mur Lafferty
About this listen
In an authoritarian America, personal freedoms are at risk, information is being controlled, and legal citizens suddenly find themselves being deported. A growing resistance movement is active, angry, and looking to strike back. And a TV show for kids may be the key.
Enter Celeste Montgomery and Bailey Vance. Celeste is an intern for the show that features Bailey singing and dancing with puppets. While Bailey teaches the kids about geography, Celeste is planting codes into the script, songs, background, whatever she can do to pass messages for the resistance.
Celeste doesn't know who these messages are from or who they're for. But she’s certain about one thing—if the scheme is uncovered, it will be her head on the chopping block.
Only the government got to Bailey first. And Celeste has no idea whose side he’s on.
©2022 Mur Lafferty (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.Listeners also enjoyed...
An interesting and fun audio production which succeeds mainly because of the narrator's brilliant (if very irritating) puppet show voices and the horrible songs she leads which the kids are encouraged to sing. Overall, a bit confusing, especially in the early parts, but this is surely deliberate and part of the plot. Sadly, for an inventive coder, the main character seemed just a little too dim to be real.
Well worth a listen, if only to hear Khrisine Hvam's glorious giggle.
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"There's pie."
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obvious comparisons to 1984 and big brother control but up to date in today's Alexa and google world, then brought together with puppets 🙂.
Short but enjoyable, I will look out for more.
fight for freedom
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On its own, the story tells of a near-future, Orwellian-style society under government control and censorship, with a resistance element fighting against the voice assisted ‘Big Brother’ infrastructure - The Ophelia Network, being used to dominate civilians
The interesting element? The core of the resistance is formed of the crew of a puppet-based children’s TV show using the platform to send out secret messages to their counterparts across the nation
Where this lets itself down is its candy floss ending… There are too many vague, happy, easy tie-offs to try and make it more positive than it needs to be. It’d be better if it was more realistic - our successes and victories often come on the backs of battle scars, disappointments, and losses, afterall
So, ultimately, if it played out a little longer and gave just a little more, this would be 4 or 5 stars. It was an enjoyable listen, nonetheless
CANDY FLOSS
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