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The Downworld Sequence, Book 1
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War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.
WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK
When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to die, unable to age, and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith, drowning himself in drink, drugs, and men. But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with, he finds himself on a path straight back into the world of gods and machines.
The Archive Undying is the first volume of Emma Mieko Candon's Downworld Sequence, a sci-fi series where AI deities and brutal police states clash, wielding giant robots steered by pilot-priests with corrupted bodies.
Come get in the robot.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
©2023 Emma Mieko Candon (P)2023 Macmillan AudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“Giant robots stomp around a lush and tactile world of ruined cities and unknowable AI gods, which is all one could ever need.”—New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir
“The Archive Undying is everything you could want in a mecha novel. Emma Mieko Candon is brilliant.”—Ann Leckie, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Ancillary Justice
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A year ago Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she's sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales. For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court.
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It's the characters
- De Ken Schneyer en 02-11-17
De: Mishell Baker
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Outpost
- De: W. Michael Gear
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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Donovan is a world of remarkable wealth that comes at a high price. When Supervisor Kalico Aguila's ship arrives, she discovers a failing colony, its government overthrown, the few remaining colonists gone wild. Donovan could make her career - or kill her. Planetside, Talina Perez is one of three rulers of the Port Authority colony - the only law in the one remaining town. With the Corporate ship demanding answers about the things she's done, Perez could lose everything, including her life. For Dan Wirth, Donovan is a last chance. A psychopath with a death sentence looming over his head, he will make a desperate play for power. No matter who he has to corrupt, murder, or destroy. Captain Max Taggart is the Corporation's enforcer. But is it too late to seize control of Donovan?
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Must have been written for teenage girls
- De Bob en 03-30-20
De: W. Michael Gear
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The Other Side of the Sky
- De: Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain, Caitlin Davies
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Prince North’s home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate engines, powered by technology. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the Surface, responsible for providing answers, direction - hope. North’s and Nimh’s lives are entwined - though their hearts can never be. Linked by a terrifying prophecy and caught between duty and fate, they must choose between saving their people or succumbing to the bond that is forbidden between them.
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Beautiful
- De Ruthi en 09-13-20
De: Amie Kaufman, y otros
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Three Parts Dead
- De: Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Claudia Alick
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- De John en 07-27-14
De: Max Gladstone
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Ink and Bone
- The Great Library
- De: Rachel Caine
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly - but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden. Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family, who are involved in the thriving black market.
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don't give up too soon.
- De Janel en 09-11-15
De: Rachel Caine
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Thirteen
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 22 h y 29 m
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Marsalis is one of a new breed...literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth's distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back.
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WOW, Morgan Does it again!
- De L. en 07-10-07
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Shadow Blade
- Shadowchasers, Book 1
- De: Seressia Glass
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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For Kira Solomon, normal was never an option. Kira's day job is as an antiquities expert, but her true calling is as a Shadowchaser. Trained from youth to be one of the most lethal Chasers in existence, Kira serves the Gilead Commission, dispatching the Fallen who sow discord and chaos. Of course, sometimes Gilead bureaucracy is as much a thorn in her side as anything the Fallen can muster against her. Right now, though, she's got a bigger problem....
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Agile Narrator, Fun Story, Realistic POCs
- De D en 02-22-15
De: Seressia Glass
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Breaking Gods
- Godbreaker, Book 1
- De: D. J. Molles
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In the beginning, the gods destroyed the world. Five hundred years later, things haven’t gotten much better for humans. The demigods that were left behind to guard over humanity have been using them as fodder for an endless civil war between themselves, and the humans just go on dutifully slaughtering each other, battle after battle. It’s not all bad, though. Perry McGown makes his living off those bloody, stinking battlefields. He works on a crew that reclaims all the spent shell casings. But if anyone found out that he was a deserter from the war, he’d be executed for heresy.
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Why does the author make it so hard to like the main character
- De Teressa Vanda en 10-02-19
De: D. J. Molles
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Heart of Stone
- The Negotiator Trilogy, Book 1
- De: C. E. Murphy
- Narrado por: Eve Bianco
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn't a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she'd encounter a dark new world filled with magical beings, not to mention a dying woman and a mysterious stranger with blood on his hands. Her logical, lawyer instincts told her it couldn't all be real, but she could hardly deny what she'd seen...and touched.
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Her best by far
- De Amazon Customer en 11-08-07
De: C. E. Murphy
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Cast in Moonlight
- Chronicles of Elantra, Book 6.5
- De: Michelle Sagara
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
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Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive, and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits, and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra - if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks!
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Very good, gives important series background info
- De James en 05-04-12
De: Michelle Sagara
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Tiger Eye
- Dirk & Steele Series, Book 1
- De: Marjorie Liu
- Narrado por: Emma Lysy
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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The first exciting Dirk & Steele novel by the incomparable Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye is a breathtaking masterwork of paranormal romance - a stunningly original tale of magic, sensuality, desire, and danger, featuring a hero who is the answer to every romance lover’s fantasy. Tiger Eye is the one that started it all, ushering audiences into the Dirk & Steele world of shape-shifters, psychics, and extraordinary beings, showcasing one of the most inventive talents currently working the shadowland where passion and the amazing intertwine.
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Tiger genie and mini Magneto
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 04-24-23
De: Marjorie Liu
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The Whitefire Crossing
- The Shattered Sigil, Book 1
- De: Courtney Schafer
- Narrado por: Andy Caploe
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover. He's in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carry legitimate goods from the city of Ninavel into the country of Alathia. The route through the Whitefire Mountains is treacherous, and Dev is one of the few climbers who knows how to cross them safely. With his skill and connections, it's easy enough to slip contraband charms from Ninavel - where any magic is fair game, no matter how dark - into Alathia, where most magic is outlawed.
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Loved the plot, loved the characters
- De Amazon Customer en 09-22-12
De: Courtney Schafer
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A Thousand Words for Stranger
- Trade Pact Universe, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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This debut science fiction novel is the story of Sira--a woman on the run from the law, from her own people, and from an unknown figure determined to use her for his own ends. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, she must stay free long enough to regain both her identity and the full use of her telepathic powers. The price of failure may not only be the loss of her own future, but that of her entire race.
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Another GREAT Czerneda book!
- De GraphicsChyk en 12-11-12
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Beholder's Eye
- Web Shifters, Book 1
- De: Julie E. Czerneda
- Narrado por: Luci Christian Bell
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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They are the last survivors of their race, beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives. To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner - a human being. Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally discover their location.
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Julie E. Czerneda on Audible=WIN
- De Marniac en 08-06-12
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Perdition
- Dred Chronicles, Book 1
- De: Ann Aguirre
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate's most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona "Dred" Devos controls one of Perdition's six territories, bordered on both sides by would-be kings eager to challenge her claim. Keeping them at bay requires constant vigilance, as well as a steady influx of new recruits to replace the fallen.
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Liked it - But Was Kind of Bored With This One
- De Joki en 11-03-13
De: Ann Aguirre
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It’s an old, familiar story: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to lead their people to victory in a holy war. But Misery Nomaki (she/they) knows they are a fraud. Raised on a remote moon colony, they don’t believe in any kind of god. Their angel is a delusion, brought on by hereditary space exposure. Yet their survival banks on mastering the holy mech they are supposedly destined for, and convincing the Emperor of the Faithful that they are the real deal.
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The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor’s surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran capital.
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After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence? Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.
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The Deep Sky
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It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
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The synopsis was better than the story
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These Burning Stars
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Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret.
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Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his family's wealth, something that Matti has been trying—and failing—to do for the past ten years. What he can afford, unfortunately, is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere.
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Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.
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Translation State
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When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. No one actually expects Enae to succeed; it's an empty assignment meant to keep hir occupied. But Enae has never had a true purpose—no one ever expected hir to do more than care for grandmaman—so sie is determined to accomplish this task to the best of her ability.
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Single themed and not on par with the series
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Iron Widow (Book 1)
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The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed.
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A fun yet uneven read.
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The Saint of Bright Doors
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Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.
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Interesting but hard to follow on audio
- De S. Browne en 07-09-24
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A Memory Called Empire
- Teixcalaan, Book 1
- De: Arkady Martine
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident - or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion.
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Story is great, weird editing, not great narration
- De Nadia en 06-10-19
De: Arkady Martine
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Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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Another banger from Tchaikovsky
- De J. C. Amos en 06-09-24
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 01-02-24
AI evolution towards corruption
Emma Mieko Candon’s The Archive Undying is a confusing sci-fi story of a dystopian future after AIs had risen to godlike power such that they were worshipped with archivists serving as priests, only to become corrupted creating a post-AI world where some are hunting for AI artifacts. Individuals who had interacted with AIs retain some abilities and are referred to as ‘relics.’ The political structure is one of competing city states run by mob bosses, many of which have ambitions of creating an ‘engine,’ basically an AI derived entity that is under the control of a relic with an archive (the memory or data). In the hunt for salvage, un unknown AI arises that seems to have been the cause of the original corruption.
Candon’s worldbuilding leaves much to be desired as the current state of the world as well as how it got this way is never fully fleshed out. The whole tale is reminiscent of the 70’s film ‘Zardoz’ with a set of contrived arrangements that permit a story, but without much satisfaction.
The narration is acceptable with some character distinction. Pacing is on the slow side.
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- Bailey
- 08-01-23
No idea what’s going on
Admittedly I’m a pretty casual reader, but the story tries to be everywhere, the world building is really good but is rendered incomprehensible by the un marked perspective shifts; are we in a memory, a vision, who is talking right now? Often I was wondering: where are we? And What is going on? As another reviewer said— don’t hide your world building, want the characters to travel in a huge beast like in mortal engines then take the time to explain how the walking creature works and where they are. Literally spell out this is what happened to the AI, this is how AI society worked, what happened. I’m left super confused at all times and after like 10 hours I just couldn’t keep going as I had no idea where we were, what the characters goals were, and why the things that were happening were happening.
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- Frederick Woyach
- 05-11-24
Don’t buy the audio book
Not Sci-Fi and weak.
Note, I am DNF on this one. I also made the mistake of buying the audio book which seemed to amplify its problems.
While tossing out terms like killer AIs who kill cities, frag-tech (bio tech fragments), archives (people), relics (people?), corruption etc. may set a tone, none are defined.
The technobabble is incomprehensible—so this is high fantasy with a weak magic system and incomplete world building.
The word “archive” is misused. The term “neurotransmitter” seems misused too.
<<Spoiler alert >>
The fragments eat people. One is called a “dragon child”. Are there any grown up dragons?
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- Rio
- 07-10-23
The Secret Shouldn’t Be The World Building
I really enjoyed the characters in this book and you can tell that this writer has a firm grasp on the world they’ve created. They’re just unwilling to tell us ANYTHING for so long that the book is almost incomprehensible the entire way through. Company cats are mentioned before their description or purpose is even implied, the corruption of the AI gods is a vague calamity that doesn’t even have outcome descriptions until late in the book, we don’t even get an idea of what corruption does until chapter 33. There’s very compelling stakes and plenty going on, I don’t understand why the world building is so restricted from the reader. Regardless of that frustration, I really like Sunai and I think if a sequel book comes out with clearer admission of the world, this will make a more compelling read a second time around.
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- Spencer Wilkerson
- 09-07-23
Hard to connect with
I deeply wanted to like this book. Mecha and AI in a weird future-past-present? Sign me up. Especially with a cover blurb from Tamsyn Muir, whom I adore. But alas, it is extremely hard to build any sort of emotional connection to the world or these characters because the author buries everything in layers of obfuscation that feel pretty unnecessary.
I respect her commitment to avoiding info-dumps. Another reviewer was like, “Please spell out the world-building,” and I disagree with that sentiment. Info-dumps take you out of the flow of the story and often feel very YA. The author clearly decided she would avoid them altogether. That’s great, it’s a laudable goal, but she doesn’t pull it off. I spent 80% of this book saying—out loud—“what? wait…what? who? why?!” There’d be these passages where the narration was like “suddenly it all made sense” or “sunai understood everything” and I was like, “Uhh, I don’t.”
I STILL do not understand almost any character’s motivation, which I think is the central reason it’s so hard to connect with. The main love story is so rushed that it’s nonsensical. Everyone knows everyone or maybe they don’t but they definitely do? Divine convergence, amirite? Who is the Harbor? Wtf do they want? What does ANYONE want? The plot ends up feeling like nonsense, and by the end I was just desperate for it to be over. The last 40 minutes took me two weeks to finish. The ending lacked any sort of emotional punch, both because of the aforementioned complete lack of understanding of why anyone was doing what they were doing, but also because the perspective shifts so constantly that it becomes impossible to tell who is talking.
It’s hard not to compare this to what I think to be pretty obvious influences: Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series and Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Locked Tomb is similar in how it handles world-building, but the writing is nuanced instead of intentionally obfuscated, and you learn about the world in pieces that make sense, like a slowly revealed tapestry instead of jackson pollock painting. Where I think it fails in comparison to Eva is that was a visual medium. The author has also written graphic novels, and I honestly think this would have been waaaay better as one. She could do so much with images that she can’t with words, and I think we’d all be less confused.
I had this on my wishlist for almost a year before it came out, and I was pretty disappointed in the result. I highly doubt I’d return for a book 2, but I might sample the author’s work again down the road once she’s figured some things out.
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- Christopher A Renz
- 07-22-24
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Not great. was a chore to power thru. Definitely don't recommend . Reader was good .
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-20-23
A meditation on interbeing
In this exquisitely strange and well-drawn world, humans and AI’s are intermingled in surprising ways. What it means to be “human”, to feel, to think and to act, becomes complicated (and funny and sad and scary) in ways that most of us never think about. Lucky for us, the author thought about it. All we have to do is enjoy the journey!
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- Ashlyn Baird
- 09-08-23
Wonderful!
Absolutely loved it!
I'm not usually into mecha/robot stuff (I'm more of a high fantasy nerd) but the book blurb was so wild that I had to read the sample and it hooked me immediately! So much that, despite planning on reading it, I decided to buy the audio book so I could listen to it at work.
The characters are funny, interesting and multifaceted in their motivations. It's difficult not to like any of them even as their motivations clash. I was especially charmed with Jin, I love a little cunning, sassy bastard, especially a non-binary one.
It was a little difficult to follow sometimes (I got a little lost near the end) because it is, at its root, speculative fiction, but by the time the book was nearing the end, everything came together and I wasn't left feeling like I was missing anything (even though I'm sure I did, lol!) It's going to warrant a re-read in the near future, for sure.
The narrarator for the audio book was fantastic as well! The character voices were distinct and it was easy to follow who was speaking and whose POV it was, even when they blurred together. His cadence and voice were a perfect fit for the book.
This can definitely be a stand-alone as it felt complete, but I'm very excited to see that this may be part of a series! Looking forward to seeing what the author writes next. Thank you so much for this book!
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- Ryan
- 02-21-24
multiple voices with out multiple audio voices.
very confusing. I could not follow the plot. characters descriptions were poor. only finished because of a book club. would not have finished other wise.
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- Sean_Petrick
- 01-08-24
A personal, but important story in a large, expansive world.
The Archive Undying knows when to hold your hand through world building, and when to let you fill in the spaces on your own. Exposition isn't forced, but is substantial where needed. Less ham fisted than Snow Crash's librarian explaining Mesopotamian myth, but no less thorough, and for a world all its own. This was sold to me as "For your friend who brought a 200 slide presentation on Evangelion to the Presentation Party," and I was left satisfied and hungry for more.
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