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The Archive Undying
- The Downworld Sequence, Book 1
- Narrated by: Yung-I Chang
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction.
WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT
WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND
WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK
When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to die, unable to age, and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith, drowning himself in drink, drugs, and men. But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with, he finds himself on a path straight back into the world of gods and machines.
The Archive Undying is the first volume of Emma Mieko Candon's Downworld Sequence, a sci-fi series where AI deities and brutal police states clash, wielding giant robots steered by pilot-priests with corrupted bodies.
Come get in the robot.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
Critic Reviews
“Giant robots stomp around a lush and tactile world of ruined cities and unknowable AI gods, which is all one could ever need.”—New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir
“The Archive Undying is everything you could want in a mecha novel. Emma Mieko Candon is brilliant.”—Ann Leckie, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Ancillary Justice
“Candon pours her/their elaborate setting of weird artifacts, monstrous fragtech, and corrupted AI through an intense and intimate emotional focus to create a vivid journey of recovery and reclamation.”—New York Times bestselling author, Kate Elliott
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-2023
excellent
a fascinating and excellently executed take on the mecha genre, set in a world of infinite intriguing detail and populated by characters that are intensely human, even when they’re not human at all. I’ll be following the authour’s future work for sure.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-02-2024
A feverish descent into self
Candon has a way. If you’ve read Ronin (which you should) you’ll know the world building and vibes of a location come like second nature to them. What Archive Undying does then, instead, is allow for a searching grasp toward the ethereal and the surreal, deftly combining compelling sci-fi with earth shattering insight into queer male intimacy, self worth, and self actualisation. This is not an easy book, its prose are far less lucid than I was expecting, but push through and discover a gorgeous, tragic, and deeply worthy new world.
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- Michael
- 17-10-2023
Not the mecha book I anticipated
I didn't finish. I was sold on the comparison to Evangelion and Tamsyn Muir's recommendation. The former is misplaced and the later is down to taste. I'd heard it had gratuitous sex - I was ok with this. However - the scenes and descriptions were remarkably unattractive. I struggled to engage with the characters and generally didn't care to read the outcome.
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