Freenet, Steve Stanton
Freenet, Steve Stanton
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Freenet

Author: Steve Stanton

Narrator: Rob Greenway

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/06/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A nuanced story about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges readers into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs to whoever has the greatest bandwidth.When Simara Ying crash-lands on the desert planet Bali, she finds herself trapped in a cave-dwelling culture with no social network for support. Her rescuer, Zen Valda, is yanked into a new universe of complications he can scarcely grasp and into an infinite network of data he never knew existed. When brash V-net anchorman Roni Hendrik starts investigating how Simara became the subject of an interplanetary manhunt, he finds a dangerous emergence in the network that threatens all human life.Freenet is an exciting new novel about the power of information, as well as the strength of love, in a post-digital age.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on August 23, 2016

This was a rather interesting novel in several ways, and it had potential to kick some serious butt, but the last portion of the novel, while interesting in its own right, didn't fit with the grand bulk of the first. Follow me on this one. What starts out as a pretty cool romance between a girl way o......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on January 11, 2016

Read this review and more on my blog. I received a free copy of Freenet for my honest opinion. Freenet is told in the POV of Simara, a young girl who has lived the majority of her life in space; Zen, who lives on the planet Bali and Roni, a news presenter. The entire book is split approximately into 1......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 19, 2015

3.5 Stars. This intergalactic novel was pretty awesome. I really like d the relationship between Zen and Simara and I was really quite surprised by the last third of the novel. I would suggest this to folks that enjoy scifi and this idea that we will transition to an alternative digital world or lan......more

Goodreads review by Sherry D. on February 17, 2016

*Note: I received an advance copy of this book in return for an honest review. This fast-paced book pulls the reader through space, time, and the complexities of inner space with its multiple settings, viewpoints, and ideas. I didn't realize when I started it that it was the first in a series, so don......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on March 27, 2016

Received from ECWPress in exchange for an completely unbiased review. Also posted on Silk & Serif Simara has spent her entire life in space living with a sexually abusive stepfather. Before the death of her mother Simara only experienced her stepfather’s abuse from afar, but now without her mother......more