Emergent Properties, Aimee Ogden
Emergent Properties, Aimee Ogden
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Emergent Properties

Author: Aimee Ogden

Narrator: Marnye Young

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/05/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid AI reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden.

A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger.

In the middle of investigating a story on the moon, Scorn comes back online to discover ze has no memory of the past ten days—and no idea what story ze was even chasing. Letting it go is not an option—not if ze wants to prove zirself. Scorn must retrace zir steps in a harrowing journey to uncover an even more explosive truth than ze could have ever imagined.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PlotTrysts on February 11, 2023

We picked up Emergent Properties because it was billed as Murderbot-adjacent. It certainly has a lot of the same things: the protagonist, Scorn, is a snarky human-created sentience who definitely does NOT want to be "more human"; the surrounding world is a corporation-controlled dystopian version of......more

Goodreads review by Chantaal on July 29, 2023

I feel like I understood what the author was going for here, theme wise, but as a whole this novella kind of fell flat for me. Scorn is an AI created by their mothers, who are CEOs of mega-corporations on Earth (and the Moon). We begin the novella with Scorn waking up and realizing ze was destroyed a......more

Goodreads review by Kara on August 05, 2023

Many a moon ago I read a duology (plus inciting novella) from Guy Haley called Reality 36 and Omega Point. It features, among other things, a dynamic duo of an AI and a cyborg as private investigators. I predictably loved it. I thought Emergent Properties, by Aimee Ogden, might give me some of t......more

Goodreads review by Lex on February 22, 2023

Fantastic. I was super pumped that Scorn wasn't just a human in robot clothes; ze was just as at home in a hand-sized multilegged body as in a humanoid one. Zir maybe-girlfriend is a bar. I love it. I had a little trouble following the plot - the players weren't fleshed out enough for me to really g......more

Goodreads review by aster on February 09, 2023

This books said in the synopsis would be perfect for people who needed their Murderbot fix, and I believe I set my hopes a bit high, because although I tried to like this book, it was barely anything like the series it compared itself to, and it took out everything that makes the Murderbot novels fu......more