Autonomous: A Novel
Written by Annalee Newitz
Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda
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About this audiobook
From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut!
Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar.
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.
Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack’s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.
And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?
Annalee Newitz
ANNALEE NEWITZ is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda award.
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Reviews for Autonomous
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Not at all what I had expected. Was hoping for a tech book that explored the future of AI, but this book seemed to pivot around various different combinations of sexual relations with various tech interspersed as background. To top it off it didn't feel like a particularly realistic future. Tech was jammed together in ways that didn't make sense. They had access to super advanced stuff, but still needed humans to do boring repetive tasks.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved the story overall! I really liked that we got to see so many different perspectives of different characters. There was a throwaway line about "anti-Autism" meds which irked me but I mean unless we as Actually Autistic people succeed in our fight to be treated with dignity and not "cured" this is a likely future possibility although Idk what it would actually look like other than to significantly alter someone's brain to change their Neurotype.
I enjoyed the deep themes about autonomy, freedom, choice, and how it wasn't black and white. Anti-capitalist themes as well. I'd honestly love to read a futuristic book that ISN'T set in a world where Capitalism continues to exist and decimate lives as it does now. Can we have that somewhere? It does highlight how bad things could get if some things don't change in our world. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very interesting!! The beginning was slow moving and boring to the point where I almost gave up. But things speeded up after a point and I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. Good author, and very good narration! Fascinating concepts with underlying commentary regarding sex and love and gender. Would listen again.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book asks important questions like whether it is possible to be in love while your body and/or mind are not fully your own. It also asks what it would feel like for a robot to be horny