Edge of Dark: The Glittering Edge, Book One Audiobook (Free)
- Soneela Nankani
- 15 h 48 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2016-04-06
Summary:
Imagine if a society banished its worst headache towards the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip dregs of light and struggle for the barest living? Imagine if that lifestyle thrived, grew, discovered, and became far more than anyone ever expected, yearning to return to sunlight? What if it didn’t share your moral compass at all?
The Glittering Advantage duology describes the clash of forces when an advanced society which has filled a solar system with flesh-and-blood life meets the near-AIs it banished about Edge of Dark: The Glittering Advantage, Book One long ago. This is a tale of love for the crazy and natural lifestyle on the colony planet, a complex adventure set in effective space stations,and the wish to live completely-whether you are constructed of flesh and bone or silicon and carbon fibers.
In Advantage of Dark, listeners will meet ranger Charlie Windar and his adopted outrageous predator, who go on a planet that has been raped and restored more often than once; Nona Hall, kid of power and privilege from the greatest station in the system, the Diamond Deep; and Nona’s closest friend, a young woman called Chrystal who awakens inside a robotic body.
“An intelligent, thoughtful take a look at what it might mean to coexist with superior AIs that we ourselves have created.”-Nancy Kress, Hugo Award-winning author
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