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The Last City

Case study · Visual audiobook

Transforming an audiobook into a world you can explore.

Meet the characters and explore their histories.

Demetria looks directly at the listener, her face and dark hair filling the widescreen portrait.

Demetria

Pura Public Relations

2073

Her mother was committed to the Wellness Center on arrival.

Has never been back outside.

Ear cuff

Belle

Her lifelong AGI companion
also runs Pura.

You hear · Demetria“Belle was my personal A.I. Her voice had been in my ear since I was 12, the day I arrived in Pura.”

Format
Visual audiobook concept
Series
The Last City, a Wondery series later adapted as an Audible Original audiobook
Role
Originator and showrunner
Pitched to
Amazon AGI, 2025
Recognition
Demo shortlisted for an AWS re:Invent keynote, within Multiverse Quad

A visual audiobook keeps the story intact while opening up everything around it. You listen as you normally would, with images and information appearing in time with the narration. See the history behind a character or find your place on a map. Each detail adds context without interrupting the story. Want more? Ask. The characters answer, and so does the city.

Follow the story through the city.

The sunlit promenade of Pura, with a transparent dome cluster floating above the water.

Pura

17 connected domes

Originally designed for life on other planets.

You are here

City center dome · 1 of 17

The sky above you is dome glass.

Residents work 8 hours a week.

You hear · Demetria“Pura is the most pristine, safe, climate-stable city on Earth. We’ll never run out of water. Or fresh air.”

Learn how the city works from the one who runs it.

A dark architectural passage opens onto an illuminated machine chamber.

Belle

She was built believing
Pura is good.

She grows up with you

You meet her as children.
Her voice ages with yours.

Built for one purpose

Help.

You hear · Demetria“You’ll each receive your own Belle, a sentient AI therapist and friend. We all have our climate trauma, and Belle is here to help.”

Discover where imagined futures meet real climate science.

Two girls walk a trail between enormous trees as light falls through the canopy.

Rainforest Dome

Real animals live alongside
holographic and mechanical ones.

Over 1,000 acres of trails,
waterfalls and a mini ocean.

Animals lived here first,
to test that the domes
were safe.

Research · Satellite data

48 years earlier (2025), 28 American cities were sinking while the sea rose.

You are here · Rainforest Dome

You hear · Demetria“Of our 17 domes, this one is easily my favorite. The rainforest helps cool all the other domes. It’s the ‘lungs of Pura.’ The trails lead to our mini ocean.”