Proteus Unbound (Proteus #2) – Charles Sheffield Free Audiobook

Written by Charles Sheffield
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

There were problems with the Form Change process. One or two malfunctions at first: people emerging from the tanks in an incorrect form or completely unchanged.

For three years it had been getting worse. Now there had been deaths, and on the Space Farms panic was setting in. People were refusing to go into the tanks. Yet out in the Cloudlands, they needed continuous small form corrections just to stay effective. As the faults increased, their society was on an exponential curve to disaster.

Behrooz Wolf lost his job with the Bureau of Form Control when his great love Mary left him. The solar system’s expert on form control sat hooked to a dream machine to escape his lonely and hallucination-filled reality.

Delegates from the Outer System came to Earth, unplugged Wolf from his VR machine, and took him to the Outer System to find a solution to the problem. Wolf believes the problems are being caused by a group of revolutionaries and outlaws who inhabit the Kernel Ring between the Inner and Outer Systems, and who want to seize control of the whole Solar System.

His pursuit of the answers takes him on a dangerous trip into the Kernel Ring and into contact with an intelligence which may come from completely outside of the Solar System.