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iD

By Madeline Ashby
iD by Madeline Ashby digital book - Fable

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THE SECOND MACHINE DYNASTY

Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption.

Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.

File Under: Science Fiction [ vN2 | Island in the Streams | Failsafe No More | The Stepford Solution ]

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13 Reviews

2.5
“iD by Madeline Ashby - Second book in The Machine Dynasty trilogy Adventurous, challenging, dark, mysterious, sad, and tense. Medium-paced Plot- or character-driven? Plot Strong character development? It's complicated Loveable characters? No Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes 2.5 Stars I understand what and why this story was written, but it is disgusting. It is horrific and worse than the world of The Handmaid's Tale (which, itself is a dystopian nightmare). The idea, that the people in charge have designed and put into effect...the ability for organic humans to no only have sex with vNs (replicants), but 3 year old, 6 year old and 10 year old synthetics (replicants). Ugh. I keep wanting to hope for the "good" vNs to find the ability to keep each other away from being violated in such ways (and many other ways). Amy seems to be the one to do what needs to be done, but Javier and Xavier are still able to fight for the rights for the vNs. I hope the last book...finds a way, for me to connect with the vNs, and not have to go through the mire...of this wretched life that they've been forced to "live".”
“it’s been 8 years since i read book one. that was a mistake - i was so lost for so much of this book. it was good once the story really started to focus on javier’s journey because i didn’t need that background knowledge anymore.”
“The reason this book took so long to read is that I kept pitting it off to read other books. Mainly library books that had a due date and one day where I binged a bunch of Christmas stories.”

About Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby grew up in a household populated by science fiction fans. She graduated from a Jesuit university in 2005, after having written a departmental honors thesis on science fiction. After meeting Ursula K. LeGuin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company that year, she decided to start writing science fiction stories. She has been published in Tesseracts, Flurb, Nature, Escape Pod and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Locus and Kitschie awards. Currently, she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto.


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