Runtime, S.B. Divya
Runtime, S.B. Divya
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Runtime

Author: S.B. Divya

Narrator: Jennifer Aquino

Unabridged: 2 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/16/2023

Synopsis

The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg’s Tour de France.
Rich thrill seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and topof-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the
elements in a daylong race across the Sierra Nevadas.
Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled
her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s garbage and spent the
money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race. But the
race is the only chance she has at a better life for herself and her younger
brothers, and she’s ready to risk it all.

About S.B. Divya

S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. Divya is the Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated author of Runtime and coeditor of Escape Pod, with Mur Lafferty. Her short stories have been published at various magazines including Analog, Uncanny, and Tor. She is the author of the short collection, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Situations, and debut novel, Machinehood. Divya holds degrees in computational neuroscience and signal processing, and she worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Find out more about her at SBDivya.com or on Twitter as @DivyasTweets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on December 13, 2017

If you’re looking for a fun, bite-sized book snack in between larger reads then look no further - S.B Divya’s Runtime is the literary doughnut you are hankering for. It’s small, satisfying, and occasionally a little too sweet, but this novella goes down very, very easily. Divya sets her story in a con......more

Goodreads review by Howard on December 26, 2023

3 Stars for Runtime (audiobook) by S. B. Divya read by Jennifer Aquino. I’ll liked the premise of the story but I would have liked more racing action.......more

Goodreads review by Bridget on August 29, 2016

I read all of Tor.com’s novellas, which is a good thing because I otherwise might have missed out on this gem by S.B. Divya. I would never have picked up a story about a cyborg endurance race on my own, but I’m glad I read this one. Runtime is a marvel of world building and character portraiture wra......more

Goodreads review by Beth on May 18, 2016

I received a signed copy of this novella from the author during Nebula Weekend. Divya's novella is fine scifi: an underdog tale of a cross-country runner with an exoskeleton built out of scrap parts. Marmeg is a heroine you can truly root for, someone who works with black market goods out of necessit......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on September 16, 2016

The tor.com novellas have generally been an interesting bunch, and Runtime definitely adds to the mix. There’s a lot of background stuff which I find really intriguing: the society, the genderless/third gender (it’s not entirely clear what this should be considered as), the tech… The idea of what am......more

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