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Neptune's Brood

Stross, Charles. Book on CD - 2013 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"Sci-fi audio"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Narrated by Emily Gray.
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

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Political economy submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 17, 2014, 7:26pm A sequel to "Saturn's Children," "Neptune's Brood" is about a clone, Krina Alizond-114, born into indentured servitude to the woman whose DNA she has. Krina works as an historian of accountancy, which looks much more like a forensic accountant, in her "mother's" economic and political empire. Our protagonist sets out to find her missing clone sister but someone keeps trying to kill her along the way, possibly because she has uncovered information about financial malfeasance on an interstellar scale.
This universe also allows individuals to move their consciousness from one body to another, or even make copies of themselves (mind and all) in order to literally be in more place than at the same time. It causes no end of confusion, especially as so many of the clones look alike, but becomes an important plot point.
For those who do not like long explanations of economics, skip this book. It has a lot of exposition about this universe's political-economic structure, including banking and the debt required to launch a new nation in this system. The explanation is necessary to understand the complex plot twists, but one wishes for more show and less tell.
Read "Saturn's Children" first so as to have the backstory in order to understand this novel.

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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 10 sound discs (12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781464003837
1464003831

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gray, Emily.
Recorded Books, LLC.

SUBJECTS
Androids -- Fiction.
Science fiction.