Etopia Media Entertainment Network
BookSoap is an audio drama parody about the efforts of a small group of Internet entrepreneurs, working in the late 1990s, to get more traffic to their web site, which features recorded interviews with the authors of new books. The show includes interviews with actors portraying real authors, such as Elizabeth Wurtzel (author of Prozac Nation) and Jeremy Rifkin (author of The Biotech Century), as well as imaginary authors of imaginary books, one of which purported to be an explanation of everything and one of which claimed to be the "inside story" of the making of the swimsuit issue of a well-known magazine.
There is also a special guest appearance by the late Timothy McVeigh who, in the story, is dating Ms. Wurtzel, who had (really) expressed a form of sympathy for him in her book Bitch.
BookSoap also features a storyline involving the creation of hyper-competent clones as substitutes for some of the human, all-too-human, characters in the play. Efforts to stop these diabolical experiments fail and as this episode draws to a close, we are left waiting for further developments in the possibly-inexorable march towards clonal world domination.
Set in the last half of the 19th century, yet ripped from tomorrow's headlines, Blankets of Mass Destruction portrays the (fictional) rescue of the only known female U.S. soldier to be captured by Native Americans and then rescued from them by her intrepid colleagues. Certain parallels involving Jessica Lynch emerge through the telling of the story, which features a President of the U.S. who doesn't know much, ambitious advisors, and Native American healers who bond with their "guest."