Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear
Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear
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Worldwired

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Carolina Hoyos

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/20/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

As long as there's an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save . . .

Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option . . .

Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny is still in the thick of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire, connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be everywhere and anywhere at once. But it's focused on the mysterious alien beings right outside her ship. Are they there to help—or destroy? With Earth a breeding ground for treason and betrayal as governments struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate of humankind in her artificially reconstructed hand . . .

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on February 18, 2015

So we come full circle, back around the book in this series I read first, which closes it off again. A neat little loop. I am glad to have gone through them all in order now, although I remember enjoying this very much the first time I read it, even without the context. Note: The rest of this review......more

Goodreads review by Sidsel on July 23, 2017

That was bloody brilliant I don't know why I haven't heard more people rant about this series. It's a brilliant first contact story, as well as an interesting story about AI, mega corps and nanotech. Lots so serious thinly parts as well as great action and lots of tension.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 05, 2019

Excellent! I am sorry to come to the end of this series, and will have to read more by Elizabeth Bear. In this book, Jenny Casey is in top form--such a contrast from the beginning of the first book, when she's holed up in her workshop in a gritty underculture, falling apart physically and emotionally......more