Echo Future Truth

Where to Listen (and read)

Echo Future Truth has been released for free as a weekly serial – while the series is completed, it can be listened to in its entirety now. You can read and listen to each chapter right here on this site (until there’s a book, this is the closest you’ll get to turning pages). If you prefer to binge your audio, hit up one of the sources listed below to enjoy the benefits of autoplay. The novel has three parts – Abrasion, Isolation, and Resistance – each of which is less than ten chapters, and the entire novel adds up to somewhere between seven and eight hours of audio.

Podcast services

The story is accessible via podcast services. Follow the links below to go to a specific service, or simply search for ‘Echo Future Truth’ from within any podcast player. Note: if you want to binge a number of chapters, make sure you have downloaded all the episodes (your player may only automatically download the ‘latest’), and that you have set the player to sort episodes ‘from oldest to newest’ so that they play in order.

If you listen to a lot of podcasts, you may prefer to listen to talk-shows at a faster-than-normal speed. This work of fiction has relatively short chapters and, in the author’s humble opinion, is best listened to at 1x speed. The reading is part of the art, after all. If you’ve got places to be, and must listen at a faster speed, please at least disable any AI feature that removes quiet spaces from the reading. Silence is also part of the art, and you are not running out of time.

Playlists

When we read stories, we’re careful not to assign too much meaning to a given moment, but patiently allow all moments to work together toward an understanding of the whole. These playlists should be understood in the same way. Each one of these songs is a moment that plucked a string inside the author while he was deep in the telling of these stories. No single one of them can be said to tell the whole story (or even tell the same story as my story). But if you listen along, you might catch a feeling that I felt along the way. Think of these more like audio mood boards, less like the soundtrack to the Netflix adaption (which doesn’t exist. Yet. Hey Netflix, let’s talk.)

Sample songs below or click through to your player of choice (if you don’t subscribe to either service, Spotify has a free tier where you can listen to the entire playlist). Note: the algorithms will autoplay ‘suggested songs’ after the playlist is finished. I don’t trust the algorithms to add anything to your experience of my stories: maybe you’ll get lucky, but when the robots take over you are outside my jurisdiction.