iD, Madeline Ashby
iD, Madeline Ashby
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iD

Author: Madeline Ashby

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2013


Synopsis

The Second Machine DynastyJavier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption.Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation.…or death.

About Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby grew up in a household populated by science fiction fans. She graduated from a Jesuit university in 2005, after having written a departmental thesis on science fiction. After meeting Ursula K. LeGuin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company that year, she decided to start writing science fiction stories. While immigrating to Canada from the United States in 2006 , she could not work or study and joined the Cecil Street Irregulars – a genre writers’ workshop founded by Judith Merril – instead. Since then she has been published in Tesseracts, Flurb, Nature, Escape Pod and elsewhere. She has a masters degree in Manga and Anime and writes on such matters for i09, Tor.com and BoingBoing. Currently she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 24, 2018

Disturbing, fairly nuts, and good for pushing buttons. The whole robot angle is a side issue. Most of this novel has a lot of sociopathy and exploration of emotional triggers as its main focus. It helps that there's institutionalized pedophilia that's all right because it's just robots. Yuck. But tha......more

Goodreads review by Adam on May 24, 2013

I love a book that kicks me in the head. You know what I'm talking about: you open the first page, start reading, and some idea, some turn of phrase, something about the book rears back from the pages and smacks you in the skull, leaving you breathless and starry eyed and saying, "Oh, wow" for the ne......more