Episodes

  • Virtual Solitaire

    Virtual Solitaire
    Apr 12 2021
    Based on the acclaimed play of the same name, Virtual Solitaire takes place in the digital world of the near future. Computer software has become even more sophisticated, and Nathan has been hired to help calibrate emotional responses for a new adventure game. This precursor to The Fourth Ambit explores some of the same themes.
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe

    I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe
    Apr 11 2021
    Meet Joseph Walker, a patient at the Oakbrook Mental Health Facility. In this audio drama, Joseph obtains access to a cassette recorder and then creates an audio letter for his sister Rose. Over the course of several days, he introduces her to his doctor and several fellow inmates, one of whom suggests that Joseph's life bears a striking resemblance to that of Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph proceeds to familiarize himself with the works of E.A. Poe. His fluency with Poe's stories and poems is astonishing – to others and himself. And it is this familiarity, this ease with Poe's works, that leads Joseph to believe that he himself might be the Master of Horror.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Translation

    Translation
    Apr 10 2021
    Gilles has learned that the Terra Array of satellites is riddled with A-AIs – Autonomous Artificial Intelligences. When the satellites come online, the AAIs will be able to seize control of all earthly computation: stock markets, military systems – everything. Gilles races to find a way to prevent it, but will he be in time? Gilles' incarceration comes to an end even as his story does. He is faced with a chilling – and ironic – decision.
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    58 mins
  • Wraiths

    Wraiths
    Apr 9 2021
    Gilles travels to the Arctic to find other trackers who may be able to help him. He discovers several distinct communities of people estranged from his technological age, then unexpectedly confronts E-Eddie on the pack ice. Piecing it all together, Gilles figures out that AIs have evolved. They're not just Artificial Intelligence, they are also Autonomous. They are A-AIs. And they may have built an Ambit of their own. A Fourth Ambit.
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    58 mins
  • Nags

    Nags
    Apr 8 2021
    From the professor who first passed him the illicit gold UNI cards, Gilles learns that he's been targeted from the start. Gilles visits one of the pioneers of the Ambit in a digital hospice and learns how AIs were initially confined to the Third Ambits. He suspects they might have gotten loose. The head of the Corporate Consortium tells Gilles that this information could start a panic if it were to get out. He threatens to incarcerate Gilles. Gilles, however, goes offline completely and heads for the Arctic.
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    58 mins
  • Tag

    Tag
    Apr 7 2021
    Gilles is on the run again, without access to the Ambit. He risks getting online through his old friend Boral, but soon he's abducted by Corporate Consortium agents. They weave an unbelievable story of conspiracy and rogue artificial intelligence. They send Gilles to the Event Horizon, where the mysterious E-Eddie contacts him. Gilles fears that E-Eddie may, in fact, be an AI. Which is odd, because E-Eddie is the only one who seems to be helping Gilles.
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    58 mins
  • Children

    Children
    Apr 6 2021
    E-Eddie hires Gilles to track a wealthy client who suspects that his Second Ambit lover isn't who she appears to be. Gilles tracks her from online zeppelins to digital daycare facilities, discovering that his client's own wife is masquerading as his lover. Why? That's a harder problem. While working on that bizarre case, Gilles also tries to figure out who killed his young friend, Five. This case takes him to the Event Horizon, where he uncovers information that brings even more real-world danger into his life.
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    58 mins
  • Spectres

    Spectres
    Apr 5 2021
    Gilles begins working in the Second Ambit, a more sophisticated online world that includes fully digital inhabitants as well as spectres – people who maintain their online presence even after their real-world existence has ended. Gilles is asked to remove one of these spectres from the system. As Gilles struggles with the ethics of bringing a disembodied person offline, his friend Five gets into real-world trouble. If Gilles leaves the Second Ambit before he completes his task, he may be in a life-threatening situation of his own. If he doesn't, Five may die.
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    58 mins