Medusa Uploaded, Emily Devenport
Medusa Uploaded, Emily Devenport
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Medusa Uploaded
A Novel

Author: Emily Devenport

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018

Synopsis

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport offers listeners a fast-paced science fiction thriller on the limits of power and control, and the knife-edge between killing for revenge or a greater good

My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm.

They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that's the trick, isn't it?

A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her.

Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans.

About Emily Devenport

EMILY DEVENPORT has written several novels under various pseudonyms including one which was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick award. She is currently studies Geology and works as a volunteer at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Emily is the author of Medusa Uploaded.

About Caitlin Davies

Caitlin Davies is a New York City-based actor and audiobook narrator. Davies specializes in audiobooks for teens and young adults, including the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. She has performed in New York and regional theaters and is a member of the WorkShop Theater Company in New York City. She has a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, and has studied acting at the Eugene O'Neill National Institute, the British American Drama Academy, the Barrow Group, and Brown University/ Trinity Rep.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on May 17, 2018

I think the Generation Ship fad may have peaked last year. Sage Walker’s The Man in the Tree, Marina J. Lostetter’s Noumenon, and Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts all offered exceptional and engaging riffs on the age-old SF trope, leaving Emily Devenport’s new novel Medusa Uploaded with a lo......more

Goodreads review by Justine on June 24, 2018

4.5 stars I really, really enjoyed this one. For a book about class differences, insurgencies, conspiracy, and murder it actually felt surprisingly upbeat. That is largely because Oichi isn't the tortured and angry type, but rather someone who just pulls it together and gets shit done and keeps a pos......more

Goodreads review by Ernest on May 21, 2018

Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm the author's husband, so I'm not objective, but it's still one helluva book, dammit!......more

Goodreads review by jovena on June 06, 2018

I really wish I had enjoyed this more, but I had too many issues with it. For starters, the time-jumps were terribly confusing, and maybe it’s a personal thing, but I disliked all the foreshadowing in this and the way Oichi (the main character) would address the reader directly and say something lik......more

Quotes

"[Caitlin] Davies's steady delivery and varied character voicing elevate the listening experience." -AudioFile

"Fascinating courtly intrigue and bloody power games set on a generation ship full of secrets—Medusa Uploadedis an imaginative, intense mystery about family dramas and ancient technologies whose influence reverberates across the stars. Disturbing, exciting, and frankly kind of mind-blowing." —Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous

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