
Crossover
Cassandra Kresnov, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Dina Pearlman
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By:
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Joel Shepherd
About this listen
Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design - more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.
Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra?s history, inevitably, catches up with her. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control.
As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence.
©2006 Joel Shepherd (P)2012 Audible, Inc.Joel always brings philosophical conversations into his works. I don’t think this is my favourite of his books. I’ve loved his other two series of books more, but this is still very strong and rich storytelling. It probably didn’t quite grab me as emotionally as his other works. I’ll certainly listen the the next book in this series because it is fascinating.
The narration is good and engaging.
Thought provoking and entertaining
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Books are filled with Indian patriotism which would be as annoying as all the other books I've read that were filled with Chinese patriotism or Korean patriotism or Japanese patriotism or American patriotism... but the author isn't actually Indian and his stylistic choices are both respectable, meaningful and very interesting.
The GI physiology/qualia of experience seems to be explored organically in further books as the author fleshes out his thoughts, and is overall very well done.
Following books in the series look to be worse than the first however.
pretty great
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