The Mother Code
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The Mother Code
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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
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By:
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Carole Stivers
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What it means to be human - and a mother - is put to the test in Carole Stivers' debut novel set in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever.
It's 2049, and the survival of the human race is at risk. Earth's inhabitants must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots - to be incubated, birthed and raised by machines. But there is yet one hope of preserving the human order - an intelligence programmed into these machines that renders each unique in its own right - the Mother Code.
Kai is born in America's desert Southwest, his only companion his robot Mother, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and motivations of a human mother, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. But as children like Kai come of age, their Mothers transform, too - in ways that were never predicted. When government survivors decide that the Mothers must be destroyed, Kai must make a choice. Will he break the bond he shares with Rho-Z? Or will he fight to save the only parent he has ever known?
In a future that could be our own, The Mother Code explores what truly makes us human - and the tenuous nature of the boundaries between us and the machines we create.
©2020 Carole Stivers (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedListeners also enjoyed...
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