Introducing - Heinke Digital Audiobook Podcasts

00:00:00: Introducing Heinke Digital Audiobook Podcasts.

00:00:06: Hello there.

00:00:07: My name is Christian Heinke.

00:00:09: Almost two decades ago, I got off to a respectable start with the first German audiobook podcast,

00:00:15: my thriller Die Haut, (The Skin).

00:00:18: After my 10 minutes of fame in the spotlight with book contracts, interviews, reading tours,

00:00:23: and podcasts, I went on with my life.

00:00:26: I found a job, met my wife, got married, started a family and introduced some people to the

00:00:31: magic of cinema with various film programs.

00:00:35: But all these years, writing was always with me.

00:00:37: Every November, during National Writers Month, I would sit down and write another manuscript.

00:00:43: Over the years, this has resulted in a number of interesting stories.

00:00:47: Some of them are too good to let gather dust in my cloud storage.

00:00:51: Thanks to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, I am now able to have my texts

00:00:56: edited and translated well enough to bring them to life using a variety of artificial

00:01:00: voices. Every two weeks you can now listen to a new audio book chapter from the Heinkeverse.

00:01:06: We start with my 12 part thriller from the future, Damocles. The year is 2037 and implants

00:01:12: have replaced smartphones. Any information now appears in the user's field of vision

00:01:17: thanks to the augmented reality of the implant. These and other technologies have changed

00:01:23: societies. The printed book has all but disappeared. Universities and libraries are on the way

00:01:29: out. Self-driving electric cars and trucks dominate traffic. Cargo drones transport goods

00:01:35: through the air. Rocket flights make it possible to travel between continents at high speed.

00:01:41: Seamless satellite surveillance from space has made policing a desk job. Robots have

00:01:46: made many jobs obsolete and redundant. The gap between the rich and the poor has grown

00:01:51: even wider. Unnoticed by the rest of the population, the wealthy elite is using the new technologies

00:01:57: to their advantage. They meet in a secret, virtual space, the so-called stream. The highly

00:02:03: sophisticated implants of the rich give them unprecedented abilities. Digital, virtual

00:02:09: assistants with their own consciousness help the rich as modern slaves to more wealth and

00:02:13: power. In observation mode, the implant wearer can learn everything about his counterpart.

00:02:19: In the puppet mode, the rich can even use their implants to control other people as

00:02:23: if they were puppets.

00:02:25: And the Damocles mode even allows the rich to kill without fear of consequences.

00:02:30: It is in this world that we meet Chief Inspector Joseph Lenke of the Bochum Police Department.

00:02:35: On the verge of retirement, he is our link from the world of the present to the world

00:02:39: of the future, which is dominated by technology.