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Lovelock
The Mayflower Trilogy (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Emily Rankin
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 May 2013
- Run Time
- 11 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender's Game, teams up with Kathryn H. Kidd to launch an epic science fiction saga of space exploration—and a dramatic conflict between human and nonhuman intelligence.
On the Ark, a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer—or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a "witness," privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists via digital devices implanted behind his eyes.
But Lovelock is something special among witnesses. He's a little smarter than most humans: smart enough to break through some of his conditioning, smart enough to feel the bonds of slavery—and want freedom.
Set against the awesome scope of interstellar space, and like Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide before it, Lovelock probes the provocative interface between humanity and another sentient species.
Critics Review
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“Card and Kidd’s passionate depiction of Lovelock’s plight, as well as their insightful portrayal of the various human characters, makes for a gripping read.”
Publishers Weekly
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“A penetrating exploration of inalienable rights in a story that gives ‘humanistic’ beliefs an unusual twist.”
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Details
- Author
- Orson Scott Card, Kathryn H. Kidd
- Narrator
- Emily Rankin
- Duration
- 11 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 May 2013
- ISBN
- 9781483061252
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
Orson Scott Card, bestselling author of Ender's Game, teams up with Kathryn H. Kidd to launch an epic science fiction saga of space exploration—and a dramatic conflict between human and nonhuman intelligence.On the Ark, a colony ship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer—or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a "witness," privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists via digital devices implanted behind his eyes.But Lovelock is something special among witnesses. He's a little smarter than most humans: smart enough to break through some of his conditioning, smart enough to feel the bonds of slavery—and want freedom.Set against the awesome scope of interstellar space, and like Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide before it, Lovelock probes the provocative interface between humanity and another sentient species.
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