Cell U.R.
Mark Plimsoll is releasing Cell U.R., The Gothic Sci-Fi Romantic Comedy Multimedia Podcast Novel. In fact, he’s releasing the entire serialized audiobook at once:
Vampires dance with Goths around campfires far from the rainy Metroplex- as the Central Computer says in Cell U.R. “Most entertainment consists of beautiful people on sexy adventures without kids, because real life is the opposite.” Imagine a near future, when nanotechnology allows doctors to install speakerphones on the inside of everyone’s ears, a microphone in their throat, and scanners that record through the eyes. All citizens enjoy a permanent connection to the internet.
One human cellphone loves two women; the tattoo artist, belly-dancing Gypsy fortune teller Vampire Elvirus, and a SuperUser’s abandoned, beautiful, Wiccan, earth-mother, equestrian daughter named Louise.
In this multi-media comedic satire of everything you love about B Movies and black-and-white thinking, Mark Plimsoll presents adult themes with elegance and style, buried in slang or scientific jargon, in a way almost suitable for all children of most ages, even those who can vote. Cell UR allows us to exercise our intelligence and imagination with a story “low on violence and saturated fact.” Sometimes songs propel the plot; Borderline, Wiccan Moon, Imagine a Future, Santa’s Lapp Dance, In Trouble, Meet Yer Expectations, Kiss and Tell Eternity, Whiplash, Onda Beach, Weird Beautiful, etc.
Will Gnathal receive his new Personal Customized Transporter in time to invite Vampire Elvirus to tattoo his backside on the beach as the sun sets, to realize four of his life goals, five if she’s of another race? Will the Siliconoid Aliens catch the reality show Spaceship Rambler (before Andrea loses her virginity) and exact revenge on all DNA life forms? Will Maximilliano Duroc, Global President of Metroplex, declare war in language people understand? What evil lurks in the war-torn Devastate, besides genetically modified organisms and the everyday terrors of nature at night?
Cell-UR describes the near-future Twenty-first century’s human conditions in humorous metaphor, through the eyes of a ‘normal’ industrialized, connected, urban “metrosexual” adolescent coming-of-age as part of something bigger than himself, to learn that true evil…
Mainliners: all 23 episodes are in the default feed, so you can click and download to your heart’s content. For those of us who know how to exercise restraint, we’ll subscribe to a custom feed, then change the frequency of episode updates to our own schedule. Either way, it’s a free serialized audiobook to enjoy.
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May 9th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I really like this book. It really makes one feel a part of this futuristic world with all its consequences. I think the interruptions by news, mails, public announcements, subscribed podcasts and the patronizing, personalized computer voices really add a lot to the listening experience and made me empathize with Gnathal – who, even though he has constant access to a plethora of information, can’t get/is denied answers to his most pressing questions.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I liked the book, but some of the songs were almost impossible to understand. Would have been a minor issue, but it was exaggerated by the fact that sometimes important plot points were being covered in the song.
Also, I found some of the speech patterns and accents to be so extreme that they made it hard to understand the point; especially with The President and Mr. Professional.
They sound like Forrest Gump and Bubba had major lobotomies and went into public service in the Metroplex.
Still, it was an interesting story, and I have to vote it mostly thumbs up.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
I could not finish this book. It was silly and shallow in my opinion.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Silly and Shallow?
I agree. But listen on, intrepid newbies exposing themselves (sic) to literature, audio or print.
We currently exist in a world where people walk around with cell phones pasted to their ears. On college campuses, people don’t talk to each other as before. They isolate themselves by cellphones and “social networking” by computer.
If you listen to the entire Cell U.R., you will find a Futurist vision extrapolated from today, with the current knowledge and research directions in nanotechnology, the dysfunctional psychology of a nation of orphans, explorations into drug-induced perpetual happiness, youth’s perpetual popular culture in rebellion, political science, “Criminal Justice,” our dearth of human rights education, nationalistic myopias, lack of pragmatic cultures in urban societies, and the future of genetics and GMOs.
Does that sound shallow and silly?
I try to make it fun, humorous, musical, AND a little didactic, in a gentle way to inspire further research on the part of ALL listeners, dead or alive…
M.P III