The Felicity Complex
with Taylor Meskimen (Narrator)
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Pub Date Jul 28 2026 | Archive Date Aug 4 2026
RBmedia | Recorded Books
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Description
Annie Bot meets Fallout in this dystopian satire: six women created in a lab, designed to serve the billionaires of the future in a luxury fallout shelter, rebel against their programming after the end times arrive.
Welcome to the Felicity Complex! Constructed during the height of the Cold War, our unique hotel is prepared to protect you, the billionaire class, from nuclear annihilation! Shielded from radiation and supplemented with closed air systems and hydroponic gardens, this resort bunker offers a prime existence underground: full gymnasium and spa, gourmet meals, top-tier medical care, and the best in entertainment.
Meet Hallelujah! Grown in a lab and educated in the ways of concierge hospitality, she believes in her duty to comfort the Lord-anointed refugees of the apocalypse. (Even if her lover Anastasia disagrees. Even if her creator Dr. Younghusband is disappointed in her.) Don’t worry—everyone is safe from communists in the Felicity Complex!
Look, Hallelujah, guests have finally arrived! Hallelujah and her sister specimens have waited ages for you. Never mind the secrets other rich survivalists may be hiding. Just make sure they don’t notice the violent intentions behind our staff’s wide, wide smiles …
A sendup of traditional womanhood and lampooning the paranoias of the elite, The Felicity Complex questions the ambitions behind the entitled few who plan for the end times—and who truly survives them.
“Deeply weird, darkly funny, and always perfectly discomforting: a perfect satire for the current billionaires-and-megachurches-and-praying-for-guillotines era.”—Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of You Weren’t Meant to Be Human, on The Felicity Complex
Advance Praise
“The Felicity Complex combines the simmering, righteous anger of Annie Bot with the retro-futurist vibes of Fallout, then throws in a little bit of humor and a dash of body horror for seasoning. This is a very strange book, and I could not put it down. Highly recommended.”
—Edward Ashton, bestselling author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17)
“Deeply weird, darkly funny, and always perfectly discomforting: a perfect satire for the current billionaires-and-megachurches-and-praying-for-guillotines era.”
—Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of You Weren't Meant to Be Human
“Ex Machina meets Fallout in The Felicity Complex: this stylishly unsettling scouring of sexism and survival where the humans are grotesque and the monsters are touchingly human. Clarke is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers.”
—Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times Bestselling and Hugo Award winning author
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9798899742057 |
| PRICE | $28.99 (USD) |
| DURATION | 10 Hours, 40 Minutes |
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