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Constituent Service

A Third District Story

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Constituent Service

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: Amber Benson
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The aliens are here ... and they want municipal services!

Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself.

And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.

It's Parks and Recreation meets the Federation of Planets in this fast and funny audio exclusive by Hugo Award winner and Audible best seller John Scalzi.

©2024 John Scalzi (P)2024 Audible Originals LLC Editors Select Humorous Science Fiction Funny Witty Feel-Good

About the Creator

New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi is celebrated for his sharp, whip-smart sci-fi. With novels such as Redshirts, Lock In, The Collapsing Empire, and The Kaiju Preservation Society, Scalzi’s uncanny ability to craft new worlds and technologies has earned him three Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, a Heinlein Award, and the Audie Award for Original Work. His works have been translated into over 30 languages. Adding to his long-form fiction triumphs, Scalzi acted as a creative consultant on the Stargate Universe television series and as a writer for the Emmy-winning Netflix series Love Death + Robots. From 2010 to 2013, Scalzi served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and in 2016, he received the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio. He currently resides in Bradford, Ohio with his wife and (several) pets.

About the Performer

Amber Benson is the author of both the Death’s Daughter and Witches of Echo Park fantasy trilogies and the middle grade standalone Among the Ghosts. Behind the camera, she co-directed the Slamdance feature film Drones and co-wrote and co-directed the Audible series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. In her previous incarnation as an actor, she spent three years as "Tara Maclay" on the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Imaginative Worldbuilding • Humorous Dialogue • Distinct Character Voices • Clever Plot Twists • Lighthearted Tone
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Just a day in the life of District 3s newest community constituent liaison. What could go wrong? Fun, short story with a happy ending and plenty of John Scalzi’s imagination and hi-jinx. Love his perspective and unique characters.

Quick, fun, listen

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Amber Benson is quite talented. Loved all the voices. This was typical Scalzi and I'll listen to it many times.

Just right

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Scalzi does it again with an excellent story. It us a bit typical of the human starting a job in a place with non humans, but still fun. it is satisfying how things pull together. Amber Benson does excellent well voiced naration. there are no issues telling who is who.

humorous story, awesome narator.

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Another great Scalzi short. I rarely get any of his books that I do t love. (Well, just the one really.). The story of a woman just trying to do her best at her job rings a bit true - even if there’s no alien toy shops in my district.

Great story for driving to work

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Fun and amusing for car listening. Regular‘people’ at work doing their best and getting along.

Quirky in a good way.

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I enjoyed every minute and was sorry when it ended. I need to know what other adventure the Third District Constituent Services team gets up to! I loved the humor and diversity.

Delightful

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I really enjoyed this short story. It had a super cute and interesting plot with a hint of budding romance!

Great short!

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Interesting story and the narrator brings the characters to life. Very enjoyable even though it is slightly predictable.

Good short story

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This delightful story by John Scalzi really made my day. It’s a pleasure to read from beginning to end. The third district is the only place in Paris where aliens (and there are so very many kinds of aliens) greatly outnumber humans. Our heroine, Ashley, is a human who has taken a job as a community liaison for the Third District. That means that she spends her day taking complaints from aliens and trying to figure out how to resolve them. Most of those complaints are wonderfully bizarre and the reader will quickly suspect that they are all connected in an intricate sort of way. Therefore, you know right from the beginning that too much noise from a festival, alien hornets, sewer problems, a missing chicken, and more are all going to be tied together by the end. But oh, the journey to get there. This one is fun from start to finish as Scalzi introduces a rich cast of true characters and the unusually level-headed community liaison who has to make certain her city isn’t destroyed.

wonderful

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The story was lighthearted, clever, and full of fun. There’s an entire world here to expand upon and investigate.

Hope they turn this into a whole series

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