Silver Screen – Justina Robson Free Audiobook

Written by Justina Robson
Read by Anna Parker-Naples
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

NOTE: This is my first attempt at UL’ing here, forgive me if there are any issues. I am UL’ing the files exactly as I got them. I have two other books from this author if this one goes well.

General Information
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Title: Silver Screen
Author: Justina Robson
Read By: Anna Parker-Naples
Copyright: 1999
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 20
Total Duration: 14:04:55
Total MP3 Size: 387.02
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: SoundTaxi
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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Publisher’s Summary

Silver Screen presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the
science fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight
heroine Anjuli O’Connell is one of a group of friends who have been
hot-housed from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But Anjuli
worries that her eidetic memory and her friendship with genuine smart
boy Roy Croft has been her ticket to success, rather than any real intelligence
of her own. She’s put to the test when Roy kills himself in an experiment
to upload his mind into cyberspace, seeking that SF dream of bodiless
immortality, which doesn’t work as expected. At the same time her boyfriend’s
research has led to him harnessing himself to dubious biomechanoid technologies-
, which pull the user into mental symbiosis, creating hybrid consciousness
— a new “I”, continuous with the old, but different. “Where does life
end and the machine begin?”

Meanwhile Anjuli’s grasping multinational employer, OptiNet, the owner
of global communications AI, 901, is locked into an increasingly bitter
war with the Machine-Greens, who preach AI liberation. As the case for
901’s humanity, or otherwise, comes up before the Strasbourg Court,
expert witness Anjuli is targeted by assassins and entangled in the
hunt for an algorithm which is the key to machine consciousness, and
which may even be the master-code of life itself.

This story explores many interfaces between humans and their technologies,
between the promises of science and the explanations of faith. It is
written in a first-person style that mingles elements of detective story
and confessional. Alongside its SF content, the book delves into the
complexities of friendship, loyalty, love, and betrayal from an intimate
human perspective.