Autonomous

Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine A notorious anti patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack s latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal overdoses across what used to be North America a drug that compels people to become addicted to their work.On Jack s trail are an unlikely pair an emotionally shut down military agent and his partner, Paladin, a young military robot, who fall in love against all expectations Autonomous alternates between the activities of Jack and her co conspirators, and Elias and Paladin, as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives, causing trains to crash, and flooding New York City. Best Read [ Autonomous ] Author [ Annalee Newitz ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Jack has a history of aligning herself with rebel causes She is pirate in the sense that she reverse engineers drugs and distributes them to the public for reasonable prices When a stimulant begins to manifest deadly addiction, Jack sets out to try and bring down the manufacturer responsible for overlooking the side effects.Having distributed a knockoff version of this drug, Jack finds an agent bot duo, Eliasz Paladin, hot on her tail So really, I must say the only area in which this bo Jack has a history of aligning herself with rebel causes She is pirate in the sense that she reverse engineers drugs and distributes them to the public for reasonable prices When a stimulant begins to manifest deadly addiction, Jack sets out to try and bring down the manufacturer responsible for overlooking the side effects.Having distributed a knockoff version of this drug, Jack finds an agent bot duo, Eliasz Paladin, hot on her tail S...I loved this It did for AI and Patents and Biotech what Neuromancer and Snowcrash did for the Internet The stuff I loved the most is all spoiler y, so I ll just say that there are two competing narrative characters, who are at clear odds with each other, and each is the villain in the other s story The thing that Annalee Newitz does so well and she does everything well in this book is to make each of these characters not only the hero of their own story, but to allow us to identify with the I loved this It did for AI and Patents and Biotech what Neuromancer and Snowcrash did for the Internet The stuff I loved the most is all spoiler y, so I ll just say that there are two competing narrative characters, who are at clear odds with each other, and each is the villain in the other s story The thing that Anna...3.5ish stars.An interesting, well written, near ish future SF novel with some compelling ideas It reminds me a little bit of Malka Older s idea heavy Infomocracy, although I liked Older s book a little bitI didn t find this extremely engaging and never felt strongly pressed to continue reading, but I did enjoy it consistently The ideas outshine the characters, and I didn t connect with any of them except for Paladin, an indentured robot working toward autonomy, and, to a lesser extent 3.5ish stars.An interesting, well written, near ish future SF novel with some compelling ideas It reminds me a little bit of Malka Older s idea heavy Infomocracy, although I liked Older s...This is a book that you are either going to love or just not get Newitz has painted a pretty grim picture of the future, similar to that portrayed in Company Town by Madeline Ashby and in After Atlas by Emma Newman What all three of these books have in common is a future where people are basically commodities, like everything else, and the division between the haves and have nots has grown as much as we can imagine.Newitz provides a wonderful story for exploring the nature of autonomy, or free This is a book that you are either going to love or just not get Newitz has painted a pretty grim picture of the future, similar to that portrayed in Company Town by Madeline Ashby and in After Atlas by Emma Newman What al...DNF 38%This is marketed as a robin hood esque tale, featuring Jack sneaking pharmaceuticals to the poor and dodging the authorities Two of those said authorities are Paladin and Elias, a military robot with a human processor and their handler, who chase Jack and develop feelings for each other While all that s technically true, there s no emotional impact with any of this We are thrust into a story without any feel for the character s or the world Jack hardly has a noble quest to deliver m DNF 38%This is marketed as a robin hood esque tale, featuring Jack sneaking pharmaceuticals to the poor and dodging the authorities Two of those said authorities are Paladin and Elias, a military robot with a human processor and their handler, who chase Jack and develop feelings for each other While all that s technically true, there s no emotional impact with any of this We are thrust into a story without any feel for the character s or the world Jack hardly has a noble quest to deliver medicine to poor people, but outside of selling drugs for money.I don t know what else she wants I have no feel for her personality or aspirations or anything. Th...Pirates and bounty hunters on the high chemical and electronic frontier Add a bit of transgendered robot issues, a bit of do gooder pharmaceutical mayhem, and time split between labs, parties, sexual repression, and a few really big questions explored deftly and interestingly, and we ve got ourselves a very interesting SF.Let s look at the top layer a little Slavery issues The novel takes them on for both robots and humans equally I d expected that from both the blurb and the cover, of cours Pirates and bounty hunters on the high chemical and electronic frontier Add a bit of transgendered robot issues, a bit of do gooder pharmaceutical mayhem, and time split between labs, parties, sexual repression, and a few really big questions explored deftly and interestingly, and we ve got ourselves a very interesting SF.Let s look at the top layer a little Slavery issues The novel takes them on for both robots and humans equally I d expected that from both the blurb and the cover, of course, but I don t think I expected the writing to have such good world building thrown in The whole chemical and big pharm complications were neither si...3.5 stars2.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum m not having much luck with books this month Autonomous was another highly anticipated sci fi title that sounded very good from its premise, but ended up fizzling when the story fell short on the follow through Featuring a bold and daring female pharmaceutical pirate who makes a living bootlegging high priced upmarket drugs in order to help the poor, I thought for sure this would be a winner, but ultimately neither t 2.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum m not having much luck with books this month Autonomous was another highly anticipated sci fi title that sounded very good from its premise, but ended up fizzling when the story fell short on the follow through Featuring a bold and daring female pharmaceutical pirate who makes a living bootlegging high priced upmarket drugs in order to help the poor, I thought for sure this would be a winner, but ultimately neither the characters nor the plot turned out to be what I expected.Meet Jack Chen, an anti patent scientist who travels a...Autonomous is the excellent debut novel from lauded science journalist Annalee Newitz Set in the year 2144, Jack makes her living pirating pharmaceuticals to help people who can t afford life saving medication To pay the bills, she also pirates drugs like Zacuity, a kind of legal speed that is supposed to help people focus at work She discovers too late that Zaxy, the makers of Zacuity, failed to disclose evidence of potentially deadly side effects that are magnified in people using her pirat Autonomous is the excellent debut novel from lauded science journalist Annalee Newitz Set in the year 2144, Jack makes her living pirating pharmaceuticals to help people who can t afford life saving medication To pay the bills, she also pirates drugs like Zacuity, a kind of legal speed that is supposed to help people focus at work She discovers too late that Zaxy, the makers of Zacuity, failed to disclose evidence of potentially deadly side effects that are magnified in people using her pirated version of the drug Knowing that big pharma will send the authorities to hunt her down, she has precious ...4.5 stars A dark, clever, and thought provoking book about the meaning of freedom Set in worryingly believable future world filled with medically enhanced humans and sentient AI bots, genetic engineering and biotechnology patents have become the ruling force in the economy Through the twinned storylines of a med hacker and the soldiers sent to stop her we explore what it is to be free and autonomous in a world where indenture and control is the norm The characters and relationships are wonde 4.5 stars A dark, clever, and thought provoking book about the meaning of freedom Set in worryingly believable future world filled with medically enhanced humans and sentient AI bots, genetic engineering and biotechnology patents have become the ruling force in the economy Through the twinned storylines of a med hacker and the soldiers sent to stop her we explore what it is to be free and autonomous in a world where indenture and control is the norm The characters and relationships are wonderfully ambivalent There s not really any good guys here When so many books face us with black and white morality, Autonomous presen...

• English
• 07 August 2017
Annalee Newitz
• Hardcover
• 303 pages
• 0765392070
• Annalee Newitz
• Autonomous