Well-Read

About Well-Read

E A Carter's stories narrated with full cast audio. A new episode every two weeks. eacarter.substack.com (https://eacarter.substack.com/s/well-read?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Escape into another world . . .

Category

arts · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Oct 2025

Latest episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Jul 2026

   I, Cassandra | Episode 20 | This Is Where We Part

   In a near-future world of brutal inequality, she’s a weaponized asset captured by the enemy. He’s a dead soldier resurrected as a machine to retrieve her. He loves her. She believes he is dead. In a dying world divided into a luxurious enclave for the elite in the far north of Canada and Greenland, and the billions left to survive outside its impenetrable walls, Cassandra’s ability to alter reality marks her as a valuable asset to Global Command. Lost in a terrorist attack to the United Freedom Forces, she is discovered in the seedy underworld of London by an elite soldier who does not learn who she is until far too late, and he too becomes an asset owned by faceless powers. Resurrected as a near-immortal machine, his first mission is to extract her from London and return her to the ones intent to use her gift to give the wealthy elite a second chance at life in a new world. As the world collapses into its death throes, he fights to protect the one he loves, to save her from what is to come, and to give her a second chance . . . no matter the cost or how long he has to wait. A forbidden love affair that transcends time, the end of the world, and what it means to be human. © E A Carter 2021 All Rights Reserved © Michal Karcz Cover Art At A Glance: Genre: Speculative Science Fiction, Dark Romance, Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences, Climate Fiction Keywords: last survivors fiction | far future science fiction | super soldier romance | billionaire enclave | love across millennia | end of civilization fiction | climate dystopian fiction Comps: Elysium × Altered Carbon Content warnings: violence, human trafficking, rape, suicide, drug use, strong language Spice Level: (3/5) At least one intimate scene with the reader present, euphemistic language for the act and body parts. Non-pornographic descriptions. No smutty language. “A stunningly innovative sci-fi novel.” — The BookLife Prize Critic’s Review “Surprising and unexpected.” — Writer’s Digest “The scale of I, Cassandra is truly awesome.” — C.N. Vair, Author “Stunning SF on a mythic scale.” — Kirkus Reviews “A believable extrapolation of our current situation.” — Judge, 9th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards Honorable Mention - Writer’s Digest 9th Annual Self-Published e-Book Awards 2021 Get I, Cassandra (https://books2read.com/icassandra) I’ve been using ElevenLabs for my audiobook and I love it. If you use my link (https://elevenlabs.io/?pscd=try.elevenlabs.io&ps_partner_key=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1&ps_xid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gsxid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gspk=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1) to sign up, I get a commission which helps support my work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eacarter.substack.com/subscribe (https://eacarter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   29 Jun 2026

   I, Cassandra | Episode 19 | G-II-0493

   In a near-future world of brutal inequality, she’s a weaponized asset captured by the enemy. He’s a dead soldier resurrected as a machine to retrieve her. He loves her. She believes he is dead. In a dying world divided into a luxurious enclave for the elite in the far north of Canada and Greenland, and the billions left to survive outside its impenetrable walls, Cassandra’s ability to alter reality marks her as a valuable asset to Global Command. Lost in a terrorist attack to the United Freedom Forces, she is discovered in the seedy underworld of London by an elite soldier who does not learn who she is until far too late, and he too becomes an asset owned by faceless powers. Resurrected as a near-immortal machine, his first mission is to extract her from London and return her to the ones intent to use her gift to give the wealthy elite a second chance at life in a new world. As the world collapses into its death throes, he fights to protect the one he loves, to save her from what is to come, and to give her a second chance . . . no matter the cost or how long he has to wait. A forbidden love affair that transcends time, the end of the world, and what it means to be human. © E A Carter 2021 All Rights Reserved © Michal Karcz Cover Art At A Glance: Genre: Speculative Science Fiction, Dark Romance, Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences, Climate Fiction Keywords: last survivors fiction | far future science fiction | super soldier romance | billionaire enclave | love across millennia | end of civilization fiction | climate dystopian fiction Comps: Elysium × Altered Carbon Content warnings: violence, human trafficking, rape, suicide, drug use, strong language Spice Level: (3/5) At least one intimate scene with the reader present, euphemistic language for the act and body parts. Non-pornographic descriptions. No smutty language. “A stunningly innovative sci-fi novel.” — The BookLife Prize Critic’s Review “Surprising and unexpected.” — Writer’s Digest “The scale of I, Cassandra is truly awesome.” — C.N. Vair, Author “Stunning SF on a mythic scale.” — Kirkus Reviews “A believable extrapolation of our current situation.” — Judge, 9th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards Honorable Mention - Writer’s Digest 9th Annual Self-Published e-Book Awards 2021 Get I, Cassandra (https://books2read.com/icassandra) I’ve been using ElevenLabs for my audiobook and I love it. If you use my link (https://elevenlabs.io/?pscd=try.elevenlabs.io&ps_partner_key=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1&ps_xid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gsxid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gspk=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1) to sign up, I get a commission which helps support my work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eacarter.substack.com/subscribe (https://eacarter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   15 Jun 2026

   I, Cassandra | Episode 18 | I'm Not Alone

   In a near-future world of brutal inequality, she’s a weaponized asset captured by the enemy. He’s a dead soldier resurrected as a machine to retrieve her. He loves her. She believes he is dead. In a dying world divided into a luxurious enclave for the elite in the far north of Canada and Greenland, and the billions left to survive outside its impenetrable walls, Cassandra’s ability to alter reality marks her as a valuable asset to Global Command. Lost in a terrorist attack to the United Freedom Forces, she is discovered in the seedy underworld of London by an elite soldier who does not learn who she is until far too late, and he too becomes an asset owned by faceless powers. Resurrected as a near-immortal machine, his first mission is to extract her from London and return her to the ones intent to use her gift to give the wealthy elite a second chance at life in a new world. As the world collapses into its death throes, he fights to protect the one he loves, to save her from what is to come, and to give her a second chance . . . no matter the cost or how long he has to wait. A forbidden love affair that transcends time, the end of the world, and what it means to be human. © E A Carter 2021 All Rights Reserved © Michal Karcz Cover Art At A Glance: Genre: Speculative Science Fiction, Dark Romance, Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences, Climate Fiction Keywords: last survivors fiction | far future science fiction | super soldier romance | billionaire enclave | love across millennia | end of civilization fiction | climate dystopian fiction Comps: Elysium × Altered Carbon Content warnings: violence, human trafficking, rape, suicide, drug use, strong language Spice Level: (3/5) At least one intimate scene with the reader present, euphemistic language for the act and body parts. Non-pornographic descriptions. No smutty language. “A stunningly innovative sci-fi novel.” — The BookLife Prize Critic’s Review “Surprising and unexpected.” — Writer’s Digest “The scale of I, Cassandra is truly awesome.” — C.N. Vair, Author “Stunning SF on a mythic scale.” — Kirkus Reviews “A believable extrapolation of our current situation.” — Judge, 9th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards Honorable Mention - Writer’s Digest 9th Annual Self-Published e-Book Awards 2021 Get I, Cassandra (https://books2read.com/icassandra) I’ve been using ElevenLabs for my audiobook and I love it. If you use my link (https://elevenlabs.io/?pscd=try.elevenlabs.io&ps_partner_key=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1&ps_xid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gsxid=Mu7ptXnMMscQhW&gspk=ODhjOGYzYWY3ZWI1) to sign up, I get a commission which helps support my work. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eacarter.substack.com/subscribe (https://eacarter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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