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Machinehood

By: S.B. Divya
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Deepti Gupta
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 Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this “clever…gritty” (Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings) science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy—from Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya.

Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s, 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process.

All that changes when Welga’s client is killed by The Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group that has simultaneously attacked several major pill funders. The Machinehood operatives seem to be part human, part machine, something the world has never seen. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production in one week.

Global panic ensues as pill production slows and many become ill. Thousands destroy their bots in fear of a strong AI takeover. But the US government believes the Machinehood is a cover for an old enemy. One that Welga is uniquely qualified to fight.

Welga, determined to take down the Machinehood, is pulled back into intelligence work by the government that betrayed her. But who are the Machinehood, and what do they really want?

A “fantastic, big-idea thriller” (Malka Older, Hugo Award finalist for The Centenal Cycle series) that asks: if we won’t see machines as human, will we instead see humans as machines? Adventure Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Royalty Artificial Intelligence

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Good world building and an interesting plot make this a winner. Perhaps the ending wraps up things too neatly but will be on the look out for future works from the author.

Multiple narrators are almost always a joy with audio books and this one is no exception.

Techno thriller

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I would never have discovered this gem otherwise.

here thanks to the EP podcast.

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The accents of del Castillo and Gupta are perfect, in my view. They take you places, but also allow you to change gears from scene to scene. The story is fast-moving and has enough turns and layers to be both fun and thoughtful.
Not really a textbook, but the opening chapter is a great introduction to entrepreneurship, on how tech and values are negotiated. I'll use it as course material in one of the courses I teach at uni.
I hope the author writes much more and that they are made into audio books soon.

Textbook for PhD course?

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A good story line. Takes time to get going but does make you think about the world we are currently developing!!

Interesting themes

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