WINNER, 2012 SILVER MARK TIME AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION AUDIO
WINNER, 2012 EARPHONES AWARD (AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE)
NOMINEE, 2012 AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST AUDIO DRAMA
NOMINEE, 2012 AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL WORK

As a radio play Titanium Rain could quite easily be listened to by someone unfamiliar with the source material and enjoyed as a gripping piece of audio drama on its own merits. However, I think it works best as complementary material to the book, adding an extra layer of insight and appreciation for its audience into this minutely detailed reality and the motivations of the characters that inhabit it. From that perspective questions of superfluity are easily dismissed.

My fervent hope is that this dip into the transmedia waters proves successful enough for Finney and Rocha to be able to revisit these characters again in the near future, in either format. Fully realized and cleverly conceptualized fictional environments like this don’t come around too often in comics. We need to appreciate them when they do.

In the year 2031 mankind’s survival instinct is put to the test when a civil war in China spirals into global conflict. Nations are destroyed. Millions are killed. And for many, like US Air Force pilot Alec Killian, survival will mean shedding some humanity in exchange for biotech and machine.

This is the basis for one of the most acclaimed graphic novel series in recent years: TITANIUM RAIN, created and produced by 01 Publishing. Is this the ultimate corruption of nature, or the birth pains of a new chapter in mankind’s evolution?