The Cipher

Minority Report

The science fiction novella "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick, throws the hosts into a future society where a Precrime Bureau preemptively arrests citizens who are predicted to commit felonies. The story is about Commissioner John Anderton, the founder of the system, whose life is dismantled when the precognitive machines identify him as a potential murderer.

MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana

Across a mysterious rift in the space-time continuum exists a world called Naruihm. In this world is a realm called Morevi, a landlocked kingdom ruled by Askana Moldarin, crowned "First Queen" following a swift and bloody rise to the Throne of a Thousand Suns. Yet hidden traitors are already at work to destroy everything that she has won. Enter Rafe Rafton, privateer captain of the Defiant. Arrogant. Overconfident. Dangerous and cunning enough to pillage the Queen's own ships and survive. Rafe is the embodiment of everything Askana has fought against, and the perfect instrument in a last desperate bid to save her kingdom. With little trust, Rafe and Askana embark on an epic adventure spanning the kingdoms of Naruihm and King Henry VIII's England.

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, focuses on class, language, and social engineering in early 20th-century London. The story begins with the impulsive decision by the arrogant phonetician Professor Henry Higgins to take in the Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, betting that he can transform her speech to pass her off as a duchess.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote’s seminal nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, documenting the 1959 slaying of a highly respected farm family in Kansas. It establishes the setting in Holcomb, Kansas, detailing the lives of the Clutter family and the profound fear the crime inflicted upon the community.

The Cipher

In this special weekend edition, our hosts cover the epic sci-fi audio series, The Cipher. The story follows the story of 16-year-old Sabrina, who manages to crack a cryptic online puzzle that stumps even the most intelligent of minds. Soon after, Sabrina finds herself in the midst of an international hunt for a serial killer and is joined in her journey by a New York teen named Benny — the only other person to have solved the Parallax puzzle.