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Ancestor: The Next PodCast Novel by Scott Sigler

Just listened to Scott’s teaser for his upcomming podcast novel Ancestor, and figured that I would give a little pre-review of what you should expect to hear.

In an attempt to find out how to genetically engineer an animal to create organs suitible for human implants, the German scientist “Klaus Rumpkoff” creates the “ancestor of all mammals”.

A cow is impregnated with the “ancestor” and is transported to another research facility. The research is funded by a big biotech firm, who employs, our magnum-toting hero Sara Pernam, to secure the transport of the animals.

During the flight one the fetus escapes it’s “host body” and after mangling a scientist is killed by Sara and brought back to Klaus to study.

I’m guessing that a second “ancestor” was either in a cow or was secretly developed by one of the scientists. This “ancestor” escapes and it’s up to Sara to stop it.

Sound’s like a cross between The Relic, Jurassic Park and Anaconda. After listening to Earth Core, I’m guessing that this is going to be more sophisticated. I’m also not going to count on any survivors.