Movers (audio story)

Movers was a 2003 audio story in the Faction Paradox series.

Publisher's summary
PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)

5 - THE BLOOD COTERIES

Era: Posthuman historical.

Technology - Variable, occasionally time-active.

The demise of Earth was followed by a period in which there was, effectively, no such thing as the human species; a period in which humanity suddenly found itself released from its heritage, with genetic manipulation and vast tracts of space separating the survivors from everything they'd once been.

Many "posthuman" societies inevitably became glorious, grotesque Princedoms, and none more so than those of the Blood Coteries, who -- like the Medici and Borgia families of antiquity -- commissioned the greatest art and culture of their age even as they conducted unimaginable vendettas and poisoned their potential rivals...

Alt text
Two schoolgirls find themselves bothered by pagan monsters; the assorted cut-throats, marauders and war criminals of history come under new management; the (self-proclaimed) most dangerous member of Faction Paradox is let loose on the universe; young Justine witnesses a puzzling vision of beauty; Godfather Sabbath gives a new meaning to the term 'witch-hunt'; and two Messiahs collide while the Spiral Politic sees its greatest ever prison-break.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
 * Godfather Morlock - Ellis Pike
 * Godfather Sabbath - Keith Drinkel
 * Demetra Kine - Kate Dyson
 * Cousin Shuncucker - Linda Bartram
 * First Ordinary Selvynkesh - Matt Kelly
 * Second Ordinary Veeble - Chris Manville
 * Emma - Lena Rae
 * Fiora - Emma Kilbey
 * Reverend - Nigel Fairs

Continuity

 * Fiora's deceased husband Tuluku Venn was descended from a group from an island in the Pacific Ocean who were brought to Britain in the 1700s. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * Selvynkesh hails from House Ixion. (PROSE: The Book of the War)