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A BETTER PARADISE WINS BEST EPISODE OF SCRIPTED FICTION AT THE 2024 SIGNAL AWARDS

A poster displaying the 2024 Signal Awards Gold Winner for A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath from Absurd Ventures.

Thank you to the Signal Awards for honoring A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath with the Best Episode of Scripted Audio Fiction award in 2024 for the season finale episode “I Want Love, Not Dominion”.

Big thank you’s as well to our partner QCODE and the amazing cast featuring Andrew Lincoln, Paterson Joseph, Shamier Anderson and Rain Spencer.

Stay tuned for details on season 2 of A BETTER PARADISE coming next year

https://www.signalaward.com/winners/details/#absurd-ventures/a-better-paradise-volume-one-an-aftermath/0/537573

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Episode 10 • "Watching Me and Watching Them"

Listen to the latest episode of A BETTER PARADISE on Apple, Spotify and more: https://lnk.to/abetterparadise

E10 • “Watching Me and Watching Them”
Kurt remembers the build becoming much stronger than anyone could have imagined; Tensions rise at Tyburn Utopias as Mark becomes increasingly unhinged, surrounded by his new yes men; The team is unnerved as animator Bryce seems to be getting a bit too engaged with the game world…

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Episode 4 • "I Want To Be Quite Clear. I Do Not Exist."

Episode 4 of A BETTER PARADISE is out now • “I Want to Be Quite Clear. I Do Not Exist.”

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more: https://lnk.to/abetterparadise

Meet several members of the design and programming team behind Daisy’s Ark – and learn of the fate that befell them; NigelDave speaks on what it means to exist and remembers his very first thoughts…

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A stylized character facing backwards stares at various screens displaying different distorted images. Text reads: I am sat here watching TV in a bar, and the TV is dire but the ads are incredible. I wonder if a human made them, or a machine. Kurt Fischer.
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Episode 9 • "God Killed the Dinosaurs, but This Is Different"

Listen to the latest episode of A BETTER PARADISE on Apple, Spotify and more:

https://lnk.to/abetterparadise

E9 • “God Killed the Dinosaurs, but This Is Different”
NigelDave reckons with the history of his own creation – an accident that they tried to kill off; John Tyburn-Smith believes he’s not the only one tracking Daisy, as she considers a proposal to flee to Portland…

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Episode 11 • "A Show of Petulance"

Listen to the penultimate episode of A BETTER PARADISE Vol 1
https://lnk.to/abetterparadise

E11 • “A Show of Petulance”
Kurt grows concerned over a sudden persistently recurring thought; Daisy takes on a new incognito persona in Portland; and Yaroslav is given dire orders…

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A character wearing glasses and a jacket walks through the gritty city. Text reads: If I did terrible things, I did them for love. People do terrible things for love. For money, they will sell themselves, but for love, they will destroy the world. John Tyburn-Smith.
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Listen to the first episodes of A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath

A stylized poster for A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath, featuring the characters played by Andrew Lincoln, Shamier Anderson and Rain Spencer.

Enter the new world from Absurd Ventures. The premiere of the 12-episode audio fiction series A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath is here. Listen to the first two episodes (“Something Is Playing a Game with Me” and “Everyone Tries to Escape from Paradise”) now, with future episodes coming weekly throughout the summer. Make sure to follow A BETTER PARADISE on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode.

Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive digital game-world project led by inventor and psychologist Dr. Mark Tyburn. As the advanced software they developed began delivering unexpected and disturbing results, the team fell apart under strange circumstances and the project was abandoned. The game world and the super-intelligence within were discarded, left dormant and undiscovered. Until now.

Created and written by Dan Houser. Directed by Lazlow. Starring Andrew Lincoln, Shamier Anderson, Paterson Joseph and Rain Spencer. Produced in partnership with QCODE.

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A BETTER PARADISE Novel Coming Fall 2025

The cover for the A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath novel, written by Dan Houser and based on the audio fiction show.

Adapted from the chart-topping audio fiction series, the novel will go deeper into the origins and secrets of the mysterious Tyburn Utopias video game project - as told by the tortured souls now on the run from the AI entity they played a part in creating and unleashing.

Coming this fall from Absurd Ventures in partnership with Simon & Schuster distribution.

www.absurdventures.com/abetterparadise