While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate
The player
For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game—the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.
Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM...
This short science fiction story from the excellent Scott Tierney is masterfully narrated by Rachael Warren-Allen.