The Dispatcher
by:
John Scalzi (author)
Zachary Quinto (narrator)
Format: audiobook
ASIN: B01KKPH1NI
Publish date: 2016-10-04
Publisher: Audible Studios
Minutes: 139
Edition language: English
This was an odd one, but not in a bad way. Zachary Quinto narrated this (almost) chilling tale about death by murder not being permanent. Somehow someone stumbled upon this fact. Death by suicide, accident, natural causes are normal deaths. If a person is murdered, 99% of the time their murdere...
In the world of this story, something happened 8+ years ago that changed how death works. When someone is killed (or murdered?) by another person, instead of staying dead they pop out of existence and reappear, naked and alive, in their own home, wherever in the world that happens to be. Well, most ...
"The Dispatcher" is a novella-length piece of speculative fiction, written from the point of view of an almost-but-not-quite anti-hero, that explores the impact of on VERY big change in the natural order of things: murdered people come back from the dead. If you can swallow that completely-unexpla...
This story takes place in a world where insurance companies employ dispatchers to help prevent the costly premature death that failed surgery often presents. They’re present during surgery and if the patient is on the edge of death they are there to zap them with a lethal dosage of premature death. ...
I picked up The Dispatcher as a freebie from Audible after a reading a favorable review. I found myself in between books recently, so I popped in my earbuds and gave it a go. What an excellent surprise! Mr. Scalzi weaves a gripping whodunit set in a world where murder is nearly impossible. In fact...
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