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    Machinehood
    Machinehood
    Machinehood
    Audiobook11 hours

    Machinehood

    Written by S. B. Divya

    Narrated by Inés del Castillo and Deepti Gupta

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 2, 2021
    ISBN9781797128641
    Author

    S. B. Divya

    S. B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. In her past, she’s used a telescope to find Orion’s nebula, scuba dived with manta rays, and climbed to the top of a thousand year old stupa. She is the author of Runtime.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a good story with an interesting take on the future. They appreciate the rich variety of characters and the plausible world setup. Some readers were disappointed by the lack of self-aware AIs, but overall, the book is original, engaging, and has a modern story with a satisfying ending. The narration is of good quality and the female perspective is well-handled.

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    • 5/5
      Very plausible world setup. Worth the read. Would be interested in more books in this universe

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This novel is one that falls in the "good, not great" category for me. The characters were lively and the author did a great job of building not only backstory into the main story to paint a picture of why we should want to follow along on their journey, but took adequate time to flesh them out fully as well. At the end of the novel, all had a satisfying (albeit, not necessarily the expected) conclusion to their story and the reader could certainly connect with them along the way.

      The concept was very high science fiction: lots of robots, sentient artificial intelligence, space, and invasive drones. At points during the story, it got a bit convoluted and it was hard to picture some of the tech and understand what the author was explaining was happening. Not to the point that I got lost, but I needed to slow my reading a bit to get all the facts and not miss something.

      I gave this novel 3/5 stars because even though the characters were intriguing and there was absolutely an action component to the story, it was very slow at times and the story failed to fully capture my attention.
    • 3/5
      Only got to chapter 11, it just sounds like India today with a few changes, some inconsistent things like the agent can't look up the law and the need a lawyer to do that, but it can understand advanced conversational concepts like it saying 1 product is only available frozen in the shopping list and you saying well cancel another; which only makes sense at an advanced level.

      Way too many references to finances that just sound like today's life, even down to childcare.

      This is all from a person living in the UKs perspective. Your mileage may vary.
    • 5/5
      Good story and kept my interest throughout the whole book. Very interesting take on how the future may shape itself.
    • 5/5
      Very original and engaging. I'd love to see this as an 8 episode anime series.
    • 4/5
      I appreciate it the rich variety of characters cost of the world building. The concept of AI personhood was a central element of The plot, but there was not an adequate example of self-aware AIs. That rubbed me the wrong way.
    • 5/5
      Good book. I like the modern story with good build up and an ending not super predictable. Good quality narration. I like the female perspective throughout that is not heavy handed or stereotypical.