Contagion

Worldship Files, Book 8

By: Erik Schubach

Narrated by: Jacqueline MacDonald

When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete 1,000 years later.

It is a time of celebration on the Worldship, and Knith and her growing circle of family and friends are enjoying the holiday at House Shade. Knith, Aurora, and Caitlyn have to make an appearance at the Capitol celebration, where everything goes awry.

The gifting ceremony is interrupted by a citizen who contracted some sort of alien contagion, and the powers that be find themselves trying to contain the spread of the pathogen while the medical staff, aided by Aurora and Caitlyn, race against time to find a cure.

Then, the aliens came....

©2023 Erik Schubach (P)2023 Erik Schubach

Incimplete?

The story seems decent enough, mainly geared towards those already familiar and up-to-date with the series. The difficult part is the audio recording itself. I believe the rough draft recording was turned around and published without any refinement, numerous mispronounced or misspoken words, misplaced pauses or emphasis, and the culmination is in chapter 4 around the 8 min mark where it's almost like we're hearing half a conversation. It's very difficult to follow.