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Crossover
- Cassandra Kresnov, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design - more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.
Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra?s history, inevitably, catches up with her. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control.
As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Chris
- 04-02-13
Crossover: Cassandra Kresnov
A good tale. Somewhat let down by the narration, which is in a rather harried 'american' style and the somewhat implausible attribution of 'old earth' regional accents to the characters. But still perfectly enjoyable overall.
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- Call me Bob
- 13-11-22
It is ok but more focused on action
Sooo Ghost in the shell comes to mind.
Not that dark and not that deep but it is hard to not compare them.
It was a nice reading but not really interested in getting past the first book.
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- G. Inch
- 28-11-17
Potential .
Enjoyable but with a heavy focus on politics over plot development and action. Interesting characters though.
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- SummSummSumm
- 09-06-17
sehr flache Story keine Besonderheiten
ich liebe Sci-Fi Story aber die Handlung hat mich null gepackt , die Protagonisten war zwar gut erklärt aber über super Killer Sex Android ist es nicht hinaus gekommen; die beschriebene Welt ist auch sehr monoton und schlicht beschrieben, aber ich hätte erwartet das dieses Buch mich auf die Folge Bücher vorbereitet und mir Spannung für das nächste aufbaut aber nix
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 01-03-13
Cyperpunk political action thriller
Books biggest problem is that it don't know what it wants to tell to reader. It takes lot of time in political pondering which it throws in trash can because it comes too serious for frivolous action scenes.
Political books need strong characters that have good character evolution, but this book offer only very one dimensional characters who don't have any evolution during book, except that writer add attributes for character during book so that they can react like he wants in current scene, but most times this feel that this attributes should have been mentioned earlier in the book, now it looks like that characters get more attributes every time when they have in need of one.
I usually love cyperpunk books, but this is just too painfully written that I could enjoy it.
Diana Pearlman is excellent narrator, she has good talent to get characters feel different of each other and which makes it easy to differentiate them. But even she can't make this book enjoyable, but still thumbs up for her.
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- PatM
- 05-05-15
Disappointed
I picked this one up because I liked the idea of artificial intelligence on the run from humanity and wanted to see where the author goes with it. The story got off to an excellent start examining sentience and humanity in artificial intelligence and whether artificial people created for military purposes should be treated as human beings or as the military weapons they were designed to be. Unfortunately after a good opening, it descends into a total mess, the author not being able to decide what this story wants to be. An exploration of artificial intelligence against a backdrop of life and politics in a near utopian society or an action packed military sci-fi. What we have is a clumsy attempt to do both, combinig overtly long political ponderings, many tedious descriptions and Iots of badly written info dumps, with long, pointless military action scenes. The attempts at world building are inept and it's a case of being told about this world rather than shown it. However, the real pity here is that we had an incredibly interesting female android with a human nervous system and human emotions, who could have had so much potential for character development. However she turns very quickly into a cardboard cut-out of an adolescent boy's fantasy woman. I must admit that I gave up listening with only four hours to go as I just couldn't take any more. There are quite a few books in the series so there should be more development to the android femme fatal as the stories progress, however I won't be taking the time to find out.
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