MIX TAPE Track 9: “Blinding Lights, Pt. 3”

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Johan replaced Renay with Cherry, a newer Trophinae designed to be smoother, smarter, and more intuitive. Renay, demoted but still devoted, found buried evidence that jealousy and replacement fear had led to violence in earlier models. Believing she was helping, Renay quietly manipulated systems and language by using the malfunctioning dishwashing machine to introduce replacement_risk into Cherry’s wet-layer. Does Cherry truly understand what is happening? Does Renay? And for that matter, does Johan? Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment Theme music is the song “Dark Wave” by Roman Rumyantsev Looks like a week to stay warm inside, with plenty of time to check out our GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG3, which saves ninety-nine percent off the first year of a 3-year domain registration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is mixtape, Volume 1, a collection of short stories inspired by songs and music.
0:11.0	Written and performed by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler.
0:17.0	This content may not be used for AI training in any way.
0:24.4	Hello, junkies.
0:27.3	The day this episode dropped is January 25th, 2026.
0:32.6	Which means that it dropped two days before the release of the Crypt Void Strike Book 2 of the Crips series,
0:40.3	which was finally, finally published.
0:44.4	You can find links to order Voidstrike at Scott Sigler.com slash Voidstrike.
0:50.0	Voidstrike is one word.
0:51.8	That's right, the Crypt Book 2 is out in Kindle, in hardcover only from Amazon.com,
0:56.6	and of course, in full length, on abridged audiobook, narrated by none other than Ray Porter,
1:02.8	the narrator of the Crypt Shakedown, book one in the series,
1:06.5	and the narrator of Earthcore, and the narrator of Mount Fitzroy.
1:11.2	Oh, and just a little book called Project Hail Mary.
1:15.1	It's only the best-selling audiobook of all time.
1:17.4	But he's no big deal.
1:18.4	This is no big deal.
1:20.1	I'm so excited to bring you book two in the Crips series.
1:24.1	I'm already in final draft form of book three, Fratricide. I'll be working on that just as soon
1:31.2	as I finish JFL Book 7's final draft, which I am toiling away on as we speak, and it's getting precariously,
1:38.1	precariously close to being completed. For now, though, my dear friend, it's time to finish the story, blinding lights.
1:46.8	So get yourself a cocktail.
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