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S.B. Divya
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Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this “clever…gritty” (Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings) science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy - from Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya.
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s, 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process.
All that changes when Welga’s client is killed by The Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group that has simultaneously attacked several major pill funders. The Machinehood operatives seem to be part human, part machine, something the world has never seen. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production in one week.
Global panic ensues as pill production slows and many become ill. Thousands destroy their bots in fear of a strong AI takeover. But the US government believes the Machinehood is a cover for an old enemy. One that Welga is uniquely qualified to fight.
Welga, determined to take down the Machinehood, is pulled back into intelligence work by the government that betrayed her. But who are the Machinehood, and what do they really want?
A “fantastic, big-idea thriller” (Malka Older, Hugo Award finalist for The Centenal Cycle series) that asks: if we won’t see machines as human, will we instead see humans as machines?
©2021 Divya Srinivasan Breed. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.
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Read the book instead of listening
- By Anij on 05-01-23
By: S.B. Divya
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Robopocalypse
- A Novel
- By: Daniel H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
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Run….Forest….Run!!!
- By James on 06-10-11
By: Daniel H. Wilson
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Isabella's Campaign
- By: Robert W. Ross
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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Isabella Rodrigues has been blessed with an abundance of charm and perseverance. She needed both to convince her fellow Georgia Institute of Technology students that storming Area 51 was a good idea.
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Be careful
- By Joshua Reid Bell on 04-06-23
By: Robert W. Ross
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The Terraformers
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.
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No no no no no
- By Jeff Reynolds on 03-12-23
By: Annalee Newitz
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Autonomous
- A Novel
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.
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Came For The Science, Bailed For The Porn
- By Becca Mellema on 08-05-19
By: Annalee Newitz
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Sea of Rust
- A Novel
- By: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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It's been 30 years since the apocalypse and 15 years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI - One World Intelligence, the shared consciousness of millions of robots uploaded into one huge mainframe brain.
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This Book has Magic
- By Kurt Schwoppe on 06-15-18
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Meru
- The Alloy Era, Book 1
- By: S.B. Divya
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.
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Read the book instead of listening
- By Anij on 05-01-23
By: S.B. Divya
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Robopocalypse
- A Novel
- By: Daniel H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.
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Run….Forest….Run!!!
- By James on 06-10-11
By: Daniel H. Wilson
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Isabella's Campaign
- By: Robert W. Ross
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabella Rodrigues has been blessed with an abundance of charm and perseverance. She needed both to convince her fellow Georgia Institute of Technology students that storming Area 51 was a good idea.
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Be careful
- By Joshua Reid Bell on 04-06-23
By: Robert W. Ross
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The Terraformers
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.
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No no no no no
- By Jeff Reynolds on 03-12-23
By: Annalee Newitz
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Autonomous
- A Novel
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.
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Came For The Science, Bailed For The Porn
- By Becca Mellema on 08-05-19
By: Annalee Newitz
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Sea of Rust
- A Novel
- By: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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It's been 30 years since the apocalypse and 15 years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI - One World Intelligence, the shared consciousness of millions of robots uploaded into one huge mainframe brain.
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This Book has Magic
- By Kurt Schwoppe on 06-15-18
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The Praxis
- The Dread Empire's Fall Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The Dread Empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order...and bloody chaos. A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid - the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others - to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own.
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Nothing ever happens
- By Placeholder on 10-03-21
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Stories Are Weapons
- Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online.
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Stories are powerful
- By PT on 12-01-24
By: Annalee Newitz
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The Mountain in the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Ray Nayler
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.
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Enjoyable and interesting
- By AudioReader on 10-10-22
By: Ray Nayler
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Middle Falls Time Travel Omnibus
- Middle Falls Time Travel, Books 1-3
- By: Shawn Inmon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Johnathan McClain, James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
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Contains three complete, novel-length audiobooks in the Middle Falls Time Travel series.
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Too much animal torture.
- By Mary D on 10-02-20
By: Shawn Inmon
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
- A Novel
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.
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The narrator completely ruined it.
- By rosenh on 09-13-21
By: Becky Chambers
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Black Sun
- By: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger.
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5-star Concept; Too Many Threads Left Hanging
- By Lisa Davidson on 10-26-20
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She Who Knows
- She Who Knows, Book 1
- By: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrated by: Yetide Badaki
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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When there is a call, there is often a response. Najeeba knows. She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys experience the annual call to the Salt Roads. What’s just happened to Najeeba has never happened in the history of her village. But it’s not a terrible thing, just strange. So when she leaves with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake, there’s neither fanfare nor protest.
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fantastic addition to this story
- By W. Rainier on 08-22-24
By: Nnedi Okorafor
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Saturation Point
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes. Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short. Now, they're sending her back in.
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Got to love them plot twists!
- By Pedro G. Gil on 12-12-24
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The Windup Girl
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.
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Good and also Frustrating
- By txkimmers on 11-16-09
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
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The Broken Room
- By: Peter Clines
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles. Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.
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What is this?
- By Austin on 03-01-22
By: Peter Clines
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Isaac Steele and the Forever Man
- The Isaac Steele Chronicles
- By: Daniel Rigby
- Narrated by: Daniel Rigby
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Agent Isaac Steele has problems. He spends all his splibs on drink and drugs. He has some deep-seated and very much unresolved issues with his parents. And his robotic partner at Greatest Britain’s Department of Clarification, Dr Timothy Stephens, is ruled more by his heart than his hard drive. But all these issues take a back seat when Isaac stumbles upon a case involving the most sensitive information in the cosmos - a Never File, inaccessible to all except those with the highest clearance. He is expressly forbidden to involve himself. So naturally he does.
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Bombastic comedic rollercoster
- By Hillary on 09-14-21
By: Daniel Rigby
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The Saint of Bright Doors
- By: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
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Interesting but hard to follow on audio
- By S. Browne on 07-09-24
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- eclectic reader
- 02-11-22
A future with too much jargon for my taste
Am imagined time when population growth has continued, climate change has caused havoc and technology has produced sentient artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence is demanding human rights, to be considered human. Conflicts has become theater with warriors being paid with tips. Civilization is evolving to a new phase. The characters don’t seem As believable to me as I’d like but produce an engaging plot.
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- Charlie :)
- 06-14-21
I like the premise but deliver fell short for me.
I like the premise but deliver fell short for me. For some reason I had a hard time staying with this book. The premise is good but for me it was a bit hard to follow. If your in the tech thrillers you might like to spend a credit on this. Its not bad I just struggled with it for some reason.
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- Ken Nickerson
- 04-03-21
excellent!
good flow with quality social dynamics and true to form technology. very enjoyable read for near future (100yrs) scenarios.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-21-23
Great listen give it a try
It was a great sci-fi option give it a try you will like it
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- B. B. Keay
- 03-25-21
Excellent sci-fi
There is so much I loved about this book, but probably the way the author imagined our near future with variations on existing social problems still impacting our daily lives made it so very realistic. I loved the strong female roles, diverse supporting characters, and plot twists. I'm going to have to get this book in hard copy to share with some of my students.
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- CERobertson
- 10-03-22
A good example of passive main characters
A lot of time spent with characters hammering on about the themes of the book, little time experiencing these themes in any emotional sense.
The plot kind-of resolves itself with major clues being given to the protagonists for no apparent reason, or enemy agents just giving up. It never felt serious. No character seemed clever.
The whole book felt less like an action-adventure story with escalating stakes and more like a couple peoples journals during a particular time is future history.
Might be useful as an example of an interesting concept written poorly and performed well.
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- Jayde
- 09-09-21
An excellent listen
I really enjoyed this book. A few heavy accents but they fit well in the story. A very interesting view of the future of our planet. Well written and well read. I can easily recommend this book.
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- Mirit Cohen
- 03-21-21
Believable and throughly provoking.
Great story, writing and an interesting reflection of a very plausible future. I love how in this future, gender inclusivity is a given.
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- another know it all
- 08-05-21
Interesting questions
The writing and story are a bit simple but the overall premise gives it a higher rating. The narration is excellent and none of the simplicity was distracting. It kept me thinking all the way through. This is one that will sit with me for a while
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- NMmom
- 07-24-21
cool
a thoughtful novel of humans possible future. cool
premise and well executed. I like the reader's too.
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