Author: J-F. Dubeau
Series: World Engineered Series #1
Narrator: Amy Landon
Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 01/24/2017
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
J-F. Dubeau’s deep fascination for science and inspiration for writing books comes from the clash of thought and science, ultimately, how this tension will affect the human race. He currently works as a graphic designer, telling other people’s stories in images and brands. When not writing books, in his spare time he writes and illustrates a web comic called The Eldritch Age.
Amy Landon, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a voice artist and classically trained actress with numerous film, television, and off-Broadway stage credits. Her voice can also be heard on many television and radio commercials. She has an easy facility with dialects, which she also coaches and teaches, and she is happy to find her lifelong obsession with books pairing up with her acting and vocal work. Her narration of Texts from Jane Eyre placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Humor Narration in 2016.
What a surprise this book was. I saw some reviews on it, thought it sounded interesting, and am glad I decided to read it. This isn't a perfect book, but Mr. Dubeau has skills and is a name I'll be looking out for on the science fiction scene. More than anything, I found this novel to be unique. The......more
I am a sci fi purist. Some might be inclined to use the word 'snob'; I'm in no position to disagree. I like my classics. My Asimov, my Bradbury, my Wells. I have little patience for overly complicated pseudoscience or great space epics. It has been my experience that modern science fiction writing,......more
Full Disclosure: I know the author personally - we share a publisher and a place on the Sword & Laser Shelf. I was so relieved that I liked this book. It's never easy to read a colleague's stuff and have to choke it down. I'm predominantly a fantasy reader - but I've earned my spurs reading Asimov,......more
Many of you will recognize the author here. J.-F. Dubeau delivered two truly outstanding dark fiction pieces with ‘The God in the Shed’ and its sequel ‘Song of the Sandman.’ Both are firmly and solidly in the horror genre, and because of that, his debut novella, ‘The Life Engineered,’ seems to be a b......more
I was given a signed numbered limited edition copy of this book. But because I prefer eBooks it sat on my shelf for almost a year. But something about the cover and the jacket flap wright up kept causing it to come it mind. So I eventually picked up the eBook, and ripped through it over 2 days in th......more
“Tired of stories of humanity fighting against robot overlords? Read one for the robots…[and] whether even creatures we created could avoid our own foibles and fates.” SwordandLaser.com
“Dagir, a Capek, finds herself caught up in the struggle while still navigating Capek society and contending with…humans’ exodus and their return.” Publishers Weekly
“A real page turner for anyone interested in science fiction and good literature….[that] made me reminisce of my own time spent aboard Galactica as a Raptor pilot!” Leah Cairns, Canadian actress