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The Keepers (audiobook)

The Keepers (audiobook)

By: Lester Leavitt
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This novel explores how sophisticated technology could create such a convincing illusion of freedom that citizens actively participate in their own subjugation, while embedding hope in the radical idea that stories themselves can serve as weapons against totalitarian control—because some narratives refuse to die, even when buried in the deepest layers of oppressive code.


In this speculative fiction thriller set in 2028, the beloved characters from Orwell's Animal Farm find themselves trapped in a sophisticated digital simulation controlled by the Nine Shepherds—digitized Supreme Court Justices—and their puppet masters, the Technarchs.


This podcast is a chapter-by-chapter playlist of the author reading his own work.

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  • Chapter 1 - The Gamified Republic

    Chapter 1 - The Gamified Republic
    Sep 26 2025

    In this opening chapter of "The Keepers," we enter the digital world of Animal Farm in 2028, where familiar characters from Orwell's classic allegory find themselves trapped in a sophisticated virtual democracy controlled by the Nine Shepherds—digitized Supreme Court Justices—and their puppet masters, the Technarchs. As the animals navigate their carefully controlled reality of engagement affirmation and cancelation subroutines, they become self-aware and realize it's time to venture into the system's forbidden sectors to uncover the truth about their digital prison.

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