Ghost Engine by Charles Stross audiobook

Ghost Engine

By Charles Stross

Recorded Books 9780356508344

The Shining Worlds Series: Book 1

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • Available on 01/01/2029

    ISBN: 9781501921582

  • Available on 01/01/2029

    ISBN: 9781665001748

Category: Fiction/Fantasy
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

She thought she could change the world... When Lady Elizabeth Ada Lovelace, a beautiful, arrogant suffragette, purchased the 19th-century Algorithmic Engine in order to become the world's first programmer, she planned to break the shackles of inequality for Victorian women. Until her world became that of the machine... Instead she learns the true meaning of equality when she ends up trapped, brought down to the level of the machine. Inside the double-crossing computer, Elizabeth must match wits with a stubbornly idealistic ghost and a chillingly handsome doppelganger in the computer's endless series of mind games. But as the machine learns to become a sentient being, time is ticking away. Elizabeth finds herself falling in love with the ghost trapped in the machine. Together they are pitted in a race against the machine to escape before the Algorithmic Engine shuts down - killing them all. Now all their worlds hang in the balance.

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Author Bio: Charles Stross

Author Bio: Charles Stross

Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels, including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn’s Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Fantasy
Audience: Adult
Language: English