The Corporation Wars Emergence, Ken MacLeod
The Corporation Wars Emergence, Ken MacLeod
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The Corporation Wars: Emergence

Author: Ken MacLeod

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 09/26/2017

Synopsis

Ken MacLeod concludes the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I revolution.

The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots -- and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals.

Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. The planet is super-habitable -- for its own life, not hers. But soon, the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems.

Carlos is out of patience. With the Reaction arming for conquest, the Corporations trading with the enemy and the Direction planning to stamp out the rebel robots and their allies for good, he has to fight fire with fire.

Seba is out of time. Deep inside the enemy stronghold, the free robots have to spark a new revolt before the whole world falls in on them.

b>As battle looms, the robots must become their own last hope.

The Corporation WarsThe Corporation Wars: Dissidence The Corporation Wars: InsurgenceThe Corporation Wars: Emergence

About Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod lives in Scotland. He has honors and master's degrees in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of nineteen novels, from The Star Fraction to Beyond the Reach of Earth, and many articles and short stories. His novels and stories have received three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and several have been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 11, 2022

Like the first two novels in this trilogy, I wanted to like it more than I did. I tend to give books like these the benefit of the doubt. Why? Because as long as the idea stage is strong, then at least there's something to hold onto when either the characters or the plot derails a bit. In this case,......more

Goodreads review by Strix on February 21, 2019

I'll be blunt here: this was my least favorite of the trilogy. It gave focus to the fascists - as villains, thankfully - and because it was the finale it began to kill off a few of the characters. Including one robot, which was the death I cared about. This was the culmination of Carlos as a protagon......more

Goodreads review by Chris on October 10, 2017

This was very entertaining, but I got lost about halfway through. All the double dealings of various corporations, law firms, quasi-governments felt a bit long-winded and confusing as to what was finally done. I really couldn't make out a lot of this, but the core story stood up. My problem is that t......more

Goodreads review by David on October 01, 2017

I'm grateful to Orbit for an advance copy of this book. Before I say anything about the book itself, just take a moment to admire that utterly gorgeous cover image by Bekki Guyatt. I know one shouldn't judge a book by the cover but sometimes it's hard not to... It's a bit tricky reviewing anyway the t......more

Goodreads review by Ru on July 01, 2019

The Corporation Wars trilogy is back on form with the final installment, Emergence. Again, this is not your average 'turn off your brain' thriller (largely due to the sheer density of information - something it shares with the first two books), but it picks up the pace again with the feeling of event......more

Quotes

"Dissidence is the novel that's direct yet still brims with ideas, politics and memorable characters, and... keeps things moving with the pace of an airport thriller.... MacLeod's most entertaining novel to date."
—SFX Magazine

"[The Corporation Wars] is a kind of action-packed Dirty Dozen or Suicide Squad scenario . . . . MacLeod does many astonishing things here. He creates viable, believable multiplex interactions among so many different sets of characters, human and robot. His detailing of the non-human way of thinking and speaking employed by the freebots is fun and exemplary . . . . He shows a keen hand with action sequences. And there is a generous amount of humor to leaven the otherwise dire and deadly consequences of the multi-front war." —Locus on The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

"[The Corporation Wars] hits the main vein of conversation about locks on artificial intelligence and living in simulations and exoplanetary exploitation and drone warfare and wraps it all into a remarkably human, funny, and smartly-designed yarn. It is, in fact, a king-hell commercial entertainment... It rips along on rockets."
—Warren Ellis on The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

"Descent is politically engaged, brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit. The novel is dedicated to the memory of MacLeod's friend Iain M. Banks, and one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands."—Financial Times

"Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF."—Kim Stanley Robinson

"Science fiction's freshest new writer . . . MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down."—Salon

"[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics."—The Herald (Glasgow)

"For my money, Ken MacLeod is the current champion of the very smartest kind of New Space Opera... every variation on his themes produces something worth re-reading."
—Locus

"MacLeod manages big Ideas (political and futurological) and propulsive action without short-changing either side of that classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites."—Locus

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