Interference

By: Eric Luke

Narrated by: Eric Luke

Something wants in. To your head. Through this book.

Ethan, a digital sound engineer in Los Angeles, becomes aware that his life is unraveling when an audiobook reveals his deepest, darkest secrets, escalating until the narrator addresses him directly, threatening to destroy him from within. Vivian, a single mother running an antique store in San Francisco, listens to her audiobook to distract herself from missing her young daughter but is shaken when the narrative is interrupted by her daughter's voice, faintly calling for help.

Ethan and Vivian are drawn together as they fight to solve a generation-spanning conspiracy that begins with a boy listening to the Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 and evolves through the latest innovations in digital technology, unearthing the mind-bending concept of a possibility parasite bent on unleashing an explosion of apocalyptic meta horror.

Conceptually striking and intimately disturbing, Interference is a cutting-edge science fiction/horror thriller that will resonate with an audience acquainted with the paranoia inherent in the latest technology that pervades our lives.

©2012 Eric Luke (P)2015 Scribliotech, Inc

Whoa. Wow...whoa.

Just finished. I am so numb to reality right now - I feel like I need to be physically shocked into letting go of this book. Well written and exquisitely performed by the author. Anxious for more...in a day or two. EXCELLENT.

An important work of audio-art not to be missed

This is a most enjoyable example of an exceedingly creative groundbreaking concept in audio books. It is well executed with a preternatural talent and insight into how to launch such a new genre--perhaps at the same level as the 'found footage' genre in film. The story is gripping and the concepts transcendent--at multiple levels. The self-referential dimension is a great hook that keeps pulling the listener in through the entire work. Well done--bravo to the author-narrator: Eric Luke. Can't wait for more.

A wonderful book that surprises at every turn.

Would you listen to Interference again? Why?

I may have to listen again because the writing was so rich and detailed I may have missed some gems. There are specific chapters for sure that I want to revisit. Anything concerning Vivian or Ethan.

What did you like best about this story?

The surprise factor. To be clear, I started listening without any idea of what was to come. After a few chapters I wondered if I had downloaded a book of short stories because the tone and content of each new chapter was so radically different from the last. By the fourth though, I got it...the underlying thread that connected each character's story and by then I was hooked. In the wider sense, this is a genre book about something horrific and supernatural weaving itself into the lives of ordinary people. The payoff is a very, very long time coming, but along the way we're treated to some poetically humane glimpses into the lives and minds of quite ordinary people experiencing something extraordinary. And for this, the writer far surpasses genre to bring us wonderfully literate insights, turns of phrases, detours into highly complex deconstructions of sound editing, collecting, antiques, graphic novels etc. etc.

Have you listened to any of Eric Luke’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, this was my first time hearing Eric Luke. His delivery was excellent.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

My favorite characters were Vivian and Ethan, two very, very different people, doing their best to survive their broken hearts and lonely existences. Everything they thought and felt resonated with me emotionally and it was all of these touching reveals which really endeared the writing to me.

Any additional comments?

I should say more about the thrilling supernatural connective tissue infecting every character's life, forcing them into situations far outside the ordinary, in some cases compelling them to fight for their own life or that of a loved one or loved ones. But that is the beautifully scary twist of this novel story and all a prospective reader needs to know is that it is very much worth the suspenseful wait.

wow!

amazing! the author hooked me in when I had originally thought there was no way he could. dark and horrible and terrifying.

Gripping Story

What an interesting concept especially to us audiobook listeners to have the main characters being manipulated via the earbuds in their ears.