Sample from Sci-fi audio book

John Britton

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Description

A world-weary assassin and his new, excited, partner talk. It's somewhere betweenthe far future and the underground present.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Woodley was 26 years old and due to retire in one more. Yeah, and he already had a farm picked out. He had gotten through 10 years of hard work, been lighting with the best of them. He had kept his sanity by not thinking very much about his job, meeting the strains of the task whenever he had to meet them and thinking nothing more about his duties until the next emergency arose. Woodley never made a point of getting popular among the partners. None of the partners liked him very much. Some of them even resented him. He was suspected of thinking ugly thoughts of the partners on occasion. But since another, the partners ever thought a complaint inarticulate form, the other pin lighters and the chiefs of the instrumentality left him alone. Underhill was still full of the wonder of their job. Happily, he babbled on What does happen to us when we play in a form. Do you think it's sort of like dying? Did you ever see anyone who had their soul pulled out? Pulling souls is just a way of talking about it, said Woodley. After all these years, nobody knows whether we have souls or not, But I saw one once. I saw what dog would look like when he came apart. There was something funny. He looked wet and sort of sticky, as if it were bleeding. And it went out of him. And you know what they did to go? Good. They took him away up in that part of the hospital where you and I never go way. I put the top out where the others are, where the others always have to go. If they're alive after the rats of the up and out have gotten them, would we sat down and their tin ancien pipe. He was burning something called Tobacco in it. It was a dirty sort of habit, but it made him look very dashing and adventurous. Look here, young star. You don't have to worry about that stuff. Been lighting is getting better all the time. The partners are getting better. I've seen them pin like two rats 46 million miles apart in 1.5 milliseconds.