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While the Player Sleeps
- A Short Science Fiction Story
- Narrated by: Rachael Warren-Allen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Summary
While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master:
The player
For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game—the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.
Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM...
This short science fiction story from the excellent Scott Tierney is masterfully narrated by Rachael Warren-Allen.
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