The Archive Undying
The Downworld Sequence, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Yung-I Chang
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Written by:
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Emma Mieko Candon
About this listen
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.
©2023 Emma Mieko Candon (P)2023 Macmillan AudioWhat the critics say
“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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- 2024-10-05
I cant doom you to my narrative. i wont
I think this is the kind of book where you need to listen to it more than once, with all the piecesput together. The story has left me reeling and screeching in the BEST way. You get to stand there yelling, knowing the characters COULD have made different choices, could've prevented every tragedy but also that they wouldn't have because every character is so complex and so utterly human in their flaws. a couple different choices couldve undone the whole story but because they are who they are that they never would have done anything else. and the WORLDBUILDING!!!!!!! its so good!!! each twist and turn reveals new things about each character and makes all their choices make sense in horribly wonderful ways
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