Load Shed
An Apocalypse LitRPG (Gridfall Book 3)By Dane Ashworth
Length6h 31m
About this audiobook
The System has finally offered Cole Merritt a fair deal, and that is the worst thing that has ever happened to him. Nine hundred and eleven miles of dark stand between the Interconnected Region and a voice on the wire that has been reading bearings into an empty continent for two years. The corridor west is funded for ninety miles. The region voted to build two hundred. And Cycle 3 arrives with an offer that would pay for every mile of it, on one condition: drop two thousand two hundred and eleven people from the record. Not a random two thousand. Exactly the ones the region has been carrying since the day it promised to. Selection at customer's discretion, because the Ledger has worked out that if it lets them choose, the arithmetic will do the choosing for them. Nobody is killed. They are simply unbilled, in their own houses, inside a lit county, with the dark coming in. What follows is not a battle. It is a clerk reading two thousand two hundred and eleven names aloud at four seconds each. It is an old lineman teaching a room what load shedding really is and why the trade invented a word with no faces in it. It is a county that votes to take its own evenings away, block by block, in the order of the roll, with the council and the Warden going dark first. And out at the end of the line, past the last lamp, a survey nobody can explain, a transit still level after two winters, and a field book buried in a biscuit tin by somebody who did the work properly when there was nobody left to see it. Load Shed is Book Three of Gridfall: hard System economics, blue-collar competence, a found family that argues in writing and dies for each other anyway, and a promise kept to the letter on the exact day it came due. For readers who think the best superpower is a man who knows what he is doing, and the best twist is a county that counts its people out loud before it decides anything.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length6 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
27Chapter Twenty-Two — Behind Us
2Chapter One — Four Miles Past The Last Lamp
28Interlude — The Knock
3Chapter Two — Day Build
29Chapter Twenty-Three — It Is Dead But It Is Good
4Chapter Three — Ninety Miles Of Money
30Chapter Twenty-Four — What Is Reading It
5Chapter Four — What Shedding Is
31Interlude — The Climbing List
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6Chapter Five — At Customer's Discretion
32Chapter Twenty-Five — A Better Job
7Interlude — Four Of Them
33Chapter Twenty-Six — Say It Back
8Chapter Six — Sarr's Case
34Chapter Twenty-Seven — The Repeater Station
9Chapter Seven — Waypoint Two
35Chapter Twenty-Eight — The Loop
10Chapter Eight — The Timing Errors
36Chapter Twenty-Nine — A Formality
11Chapter Nine — Nine Days
37Chapter Thirty — The Sunset Clause
12Chapter Ten — The Fifth Option
38Interlude — The Last Fifty Miles
13Chapter Eleven — Page Ten
39Chapter Thirty-One — The Second Year Of Everything
14Chapter Twelve — The Order Of The Roll
40Interlude — Ground Hand, Second Year
15Interlude — The Sunset
41Chapter Thirty-Two — The Other Voice
16Chapter Thirteen — What Twenty-Two Percent Looks Like
42Chapter Thirty-Three — Eleven Days At A Time
17Chapter Fourteen — The Crossing
43Interlude — The Order Of The Roll
18Chapter Fifteen — The Bad Span
44Chapter Thirty-Four — The Nine-Year Vote
19Chapter Sixteen — Ask To Be Taken Off
45Chapter Thirty-Five — Mile Two Hundred And Eight
20Chapter Seventeen — Eleven Days
46Chapter Thirty-Six — Both Names
21Chapter Eighteen — The Ninth Month
47Chapter Thirty-Seven — Cycle Four
22Interlude — Relief Number Seven
48Interlude — The Third Notebook
23Chapter Nineteen — Two Hundred Miles
49Chapter Thirty-Eight — Load Shed
24Interlude — The Curator
50— END OF BOOK THREE —
25Chapter Twenty — The Transit
51Thank you for reading
26Chapter Twenty-One — Her Name
52Also by Dane Ashworth
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