Self Made, M. Darusha Wehm
Self Made, M. Darusha Wehm
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Self Made

Author: M. Darusha Wehm

Narrator: M. Darusha Wehm

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scribl

Published: 08/02/2016


Synopsis

Ever wish things were different?

Ivy Velasquez did, so she became someone else. In the 3D virtual world Marionette City, you can be anything you want — but everyone still knows who you are. Driven by her desire for a new life, Ivy takes her future in her hands when she makes another identity for herself. A brilliant designer, Ivy works for one of the huge multi-national firms which control the online system the world relies upon for both business and pleasure. But one day, Ivy tries to access M City as her alternate self, Reuben Cobalt, to discover that Reuben had been murdered.

Since alternate identities are forbidden by the firms which control access to the nets and to M City, Ivy has nowhere to turn — until she finds Andersson Dexter. Part private eye, part vigilante and part cop, Dex sets out to uncover Reuben's killer. Since the corporations control almost every aspect of life, including law and order, justice for average people comes only at the hands of the outlaw organization to which Dex belongs.

*Self Made* is a murder mystery set in a vision of a future that seems to lurk just over the horizon. But above all, it is a story of how people strive to control their own destinies, and how that desire affects them and the people around them in ways they could never imagine.

Book I of the *Andersson Dexter* series.

About M. Darusha Wehm

M Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, several SF and YA novels, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Originally from Canada, Darusha now lives in New Zealand after spending several years sailing the Pacific.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on July 23, 2012

'Self Made' is the first of Wehm's 'Andersson Dexter' SF detective novels. It's a well-constructed and engaging story that reads like an equal-opportunity, cyberpunkish version of Asimov's 'The Caves of Steel' ... if that sounds like it might be your sort of thing, I can definitely recommend it. Weh......more

Goodreads review by Marfita on April 09, 2016

I'm putting this under sci-fi because I don't have a Futurism or Virtual Reality shelf. I've really only read one other VR book. Sci-fi just doesn't seem to cover it. I wasn't expecting a whole lot from this, mostly because you get what you pay for, and this was a freebie. The story takes place at so......more

Goodreads review by Norma on November 16, 2016

"... the little things ... that (make) life what it is ..." Set in a future where people live more in a three dimensional virtual reality world than they do in the flesh, Anderson Dexter is a Crucible Man, one who works as part of an unofficial police force in addition to his boring day job with B &......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca Fortes on October 22, 2020

Original I wasn't sure if I would like this, after reading the story description, but I really did enjoy it. The story was very original, kept my interest, and ended on a thoughtful note.......more

Goodreads review by Witold on October 23, 2017

Very interesting book It is very nice book. It was keeping me interested until the end. I will for sure read the next one in the series.......more