23 episodes
Beautiful Red Realm
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4.4 • 12 Ratings
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The future is boring. Technology has solved the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded.
Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude.
Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self- awareness.
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Episode One - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Meet Jack, a Security Officer Class 5 at Bellis Industries. She checks in to work, where she shares a cubicle with the night guy, and they supervise the state of the corporate system. Their counterpart in another branch spots some problems, but it'
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Episode Two - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Jack comes upon another firm's security goons hassling a guy on the street. She buys some military grade electronics from a street vendor, and spends the evening chatting with their tutorial program. Meanwhile, someone is having trouble remembering
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Episode Three - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Jack dodges her annoying co-worker, Tony, then discovers that the problems in the Eastern system are getting worse. She oversteps her bounds, then heads home to spend the evening hacking her microrecorders.
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Episode Four - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Jack and Gilles hatch an only slightly illegal plan to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Eastern system.
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Episode Five - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Jack and Gilles do damage control after their escapade, then Jack hides her activities from her friends, Adrian. Meanwhile, someone tries to do something about the memory problems.
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Episode Six - Beautiful Red
-In this episode: Jack has a disturbing experience while using her microrecorders. Later, she starts to piece together some common elements to the strange goings on she's been noticing.
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Customer Reviews
Great Worldbuilding
Set in a grim future, a Hacker relegated to dull security duty pokes around in a mystery that grows exponentially with every turn. Wehm’s world building is solid from the start, though is smoothest when it avoids familiar references. Lots of good points to be made about our silly make-work real world.
Good listen
Good mix of tech and mystery.
Another gem
It had great a production narration easy to listen to it kind of had an abrupt ending I wish it had went on longer but it is what it is a very enjoyable great story thanx