Machinehood

  • Author: S.B. Divya
  • Narrator: Deepti Gupta
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 11:40:32
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Synopsis

From the Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya, Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy.

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 thrilling and thought-provoking novel that asks: if we won’t see machines as human, will we instead see humans as machines?

Chapters

  • 001 Machinehood Open

    Duration: 13s
  • 002 Machinehood Ch1

    Duration: 16min
  • 003 Machinehood Ch2

    Duration: 24min
  • 004 Machinehood Ch3

    Duration: 20min
  • 005 Machinehood Ch4

    Duration: 37min
  • 006 Machinehood Ch5

    Duration: 28min
  • 007 Machinehood Ch6

    Duration: 12min
  • 008 Machinehood Ch7

    Duration: 20min
  • 009 Machinehood Ch8

    Duration: 19min
  • 010 Machinehood Ch9

    Duration: 21min
  • 011 Machinehood Ch10

    Duration: 25min
  • 012 Machinehood Ch11

    Duration: 26min
  • 013 Machinehood Ch12

    Duration: 30min
  • 014 Machinehood Ch13

    Duration: 30min
  • 015 Machinehood Ch14

    Duration: 30min
  • 016 Machinehood Ch15

    Duration: 24min
  • 017 Machinehood Ch16

    Duration: 27min
  • 018 Machinehood Ch17

    Duration: 32min
  • 019 Machinehood Ch18

    Duration: 24min
  • 020 Machinehood Ch19

    Duration: 14min
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