Machinehood
Written by S.B. Divya
Narrated by Inés del Castillo and Deepti Gupta
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About this audiobook
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?
S.B. Divya
S. B. Divya is a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author whose work includes Machinehood, Runtime, and the short-story collection Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations. Her stories have been published in various magazines, such as Analog and Uncanny; on Tor.com; and in several anthologies, including Seasons Between Us and Rebuilding Tomorrow. She holds degrees in computational neuroscience and signal processing, and she worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. A lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma, she enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. For more information visit www.sbdivya.com.
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Reviews for Machinehood
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very plausible world setup. Worth the read. Would be interested in more books in this universe
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good story and kept my interest throughout the whole book. Very interesting take on how the future may shape itself.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very original and engaging. I'd love to see this as an 8 episode anime series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good 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.