Memento

An Illuminae Files Novella

By: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: India Dupré, James Fouhey, Lincoln Hoppe, Emma Bering, Johnathan McClain, Ryan Gesell, full cast

From New York Times best-selling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel novella that gives listeners a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN - and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.

AIDAN is the AI you'll love to hate.

The advanced AI system was supposed to protect a fleet of survivors who'd escaped the deadly attack on Kerenza IV. AIDAN was supposed to be infallible. But in the chaotic weeks and months that followed, it became clear that something was terribly, terribly wrong with AIDAN....

Narrators:

"Olivia Klein", read by India Dupré

"Ethan Wolf", read by James Fouhey

"AIDAN", read by Lincoln Hoppe

"Stephanie LeFevre", read by Emma Bering

"Ezra Mason", read by Johnathan McClain

Narrator, read by Ryan Gesell

Featuring additional performances by Danny Campbell, Frankie Corzo, Chris Cuilla, Deepti Gupta, John Lee, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Donabella Mortel, Austin Rising, Erin Spencer, and Nancy Wu.

©2020 Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (P)2020 Listening Library

This explains so much!

If you need more illuminae files then get this. Even though it is short it is totally worth it. Explains why AIDEN is the way he is. AIDEN could make reading the dictionary sound sinister, love it!

One caveat is the background noise in some chapters is annoying and a few times almost painful. Hissing and static and high pitched noises.

lmao i love AIDAN

(also it’s kinda funny that my fav character from a different book has the same narrator) AIDAN I love you! Plus, emailing Olivia a 17,000 digit mathematical formula of hope at 4 am is freaking hilarious lol UPDATE: I have now listened to the full audiobook. Still love AIDAN. Although he can definitely be… blunt.

Great Prequel

Provides some good insight into AIDAN before we see the story from Illuminae. Wished it had been a bit longer.

DUDE

IM GONNA REREAD THIS WHOLE SERIES NOW ARENT I
Gonna come right out and say it
I CALLED IT
Been patiently waiting for this moment, because it was inevitable.
Feel bad from my international frands who dropped a pretty penny for this though.
What a ride

It was interesting to see how AIDAN got to be AIDAN

Stephanie la Febra’s voice acting left much to be desired, super cheesy. I did like Olivia. I also thought it was interesting Aidan became fascinated with another female character.

Now we know why

Brilliant. We know now why Aidan was “compromised” even before the accident. It’s an interesting twist to a complex storyline.

The villain origin story we didin't k wo we needed

Loved this. The fully cast narration is out of this world perfect and the story is amazing.

The way that Artificial intelligence defense Analyst network changed

This book is good. If you read the other illumine files book, this is good to read, but I suggest you read illumine files part 1 first (:

chilling prequel

a beautiful and chilling prequel to the series. these authors are an unstoppable team and the full cast of narrators are amazing

I loved this book!

I really loved this book! I didn't laugh or cry at anything, but if I reread it, I imagine I'd do both. So I need to buy a print edition of this book and the rest of the Illuminae Files Trilogy!

Because did AIDEN really kill Ethan and the other people who were with him to save himself/the rest of the crew? I listened, but I must have missed it if it was proved without a doubt that he did. And then Olivia was killed! I almost cried when that happened, but the book soon ended and I was fine.

So I just really love this book and series!