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Viral

By: Piers Platt
Narrated by: Natalie Duke
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"In my first battle, I made 14,000 dollars in five minutes."

On a remote planet, an autonomous scout makes first contact with extraterrestrial life. Without warning, the alien attacks, ripping the drone to shreds. Humanity is at war.

Back on Earth, Sam is just another jobless graduate, drifting aimlessly while she lives off of the government's monthly stipend. When war breaks out with the aliens, she sees a way out of her life of boredom: she signs up to be a "deathstreamer", a new breed of mercenary chasing fame and fortune by streaming combat footage from the front lines. If she can go viral, wealth and celebrity are within Sam's grasp. But she'll need to survive long enough to enjoy it.

©2018 Piers Platt (P)2018 Piers Platt Genre Fiction Military Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction War

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Loved every chapter. There weren't any particular weak points in the story or the VA, all served to tell the tale very well. I couldn't help but relate this to Starship Troopers but in today's streaming environment. Highly recommended.

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good take on warfare where you live or die on the donations from your fans, there is more to this story but i do not want to spoil anything :)

corporate greed meets live stream mercenaries

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Mid 2230s and most occupations are now done by robots, better and far more reliable. So jobs are few and bored psychology student, Sam, spends much of her time playing computer games and drinking with, or without, her friends, not that she has enough money from government handouts to become an alcoholic. She wants to do something with her !ife and doesn't know what; there doesn't seem to be anything left.
Then a young man tells her that machines will never be able to do his job: there is one thing that they can never do - die. And Sam is recruited to join the Death Streamers, men and women sent on the war ship, Final Hope, to fight the alien race discovered as Earth expanded to become a multiplanetary species. Each soldier wears a camera which streams back to the vast earth audience everything that the wearer can see and experience. Build up a good fan base, and the future holds wealth and fame - if the player can last long enough. Viral follows Sam as she tries to ma!e a difference in her life and in the war to save humanity.

Although it might sound like it, and there are several intensive human-alien battles charted, this is not quite the usual military space campaign story. Instead it also looks at perceptions and societal interaction, fears, hopes and jealousies as well as links between individuals, including a very gentle romance. All is sympathetically narrated by Natalie Duke who takes on the persona of Sam who, in the book, is recording her story in the first person, with chapter introductions by assorted quotations. Ms.Duke is an excellent choice, her voice p!peasant and able to give separate character interpretations as well as feeling her way into Sam's personality and project this for the reader. Clear, articulate and we'll modulated, hers is a good performance.

Viral is a book that I recommend to anyone who enjoys military S.F. or is interested in possible futures generally and the effect of media on society. It was a very compelling and enjoyable listen.

War is a helluva drug.

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Took me a while to get around to listening. While it's not of the size of Raths story, still well worth a listen. Well read by Natalie too.

Well Enjoyed.

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absolutely loved this book. love how the characters evolved and the twist in the ending made me cry it was soo bittersweet. the story itself covers soo much feeling of the tragedy of social media, and that of war, that it was believable and sad. I hope humanity never lives this story

excellent

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