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The Artificial Kid Audiobook, by Bruce Sterling Play Audiobook Sample

The Artificial Kid Audiobook

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Read By: Fajer Al-Kaisi Publisher: Brilliance Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781713561491

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

99:40 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

23:50 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

44:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

In a future world of rampant inequality, a martial-arts video star finds himself in a real fight for survival, in this novel by the author of Schismatrix.

Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes-lethal ennui at bay by watching homemade sex and violence videos created by the peons dwelling on the coral continents miles beneath them. The most popular entertainer of all is the Artificial Kid, an unbeatable combat artist whose bloody, self-produced martial arts videos have made him beloved both above and below. But the Kid is about to stumble onto something no one was ever meant to discover—a mind-boggling conspiracy of science and antiquity that forces him to run for his life into the strange and dangerous wilderness known as the Mass. And when Moses returns to Reverie after seven hundred years of cryogenic sleep, things are about to get much worse.

Written long before the era of YouTube, Ultimate Fighting, and reality TV, Bruce Sterling’s prescient, thoughtful, and wildly satiric novel previews the nascent cyberpunk sensibilities of the acclaimed author’s later works.

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“The Artificial Kid is a work of satirical social commentary with the breakneck pace of a Hong Kong action film.

— Amazon.com

Quotes

  • If you want a look at what the future might really be like, read Sterling.

    — Gardner Dozois
  • Sterling is a writer of excellent fineness. In point of fact, I am somewhat awed by his abilities.

    — Harlan Ellison

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About Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist who is also considered one of the forefathers of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. He has won a John W. Campbell Award, two Hugo Awards, and an Arthur C. Clarke Award.

About Fajer Al-Kaisi

Suehyla El-Attar Young is an actress and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She dabbled in radio for a bit, working with several well-known stations as a morning news personality and DJ. Eventually, she returned to acting, on stage and in film. She has nurtured both crafts of acting and writing, working with local companies such as Theatre du Reve, Synchronicity Theatre, the Alliance Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre Company as dramaturge, actress, and playwright on several projects.