Showing posts with label Melissa Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melissa Williams. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

SPOTLIGHT Audio - YA SCI-FI - JAGUAR (Uncanny Valley Series, #3) by C.A. Gray Narrator: Melissa Williams


JAGUAR
Uncanny Valley Series, #3
by C.A. Gray
Narrator: Melissa Williams
Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing
Released: September 14th 2018
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

The Silver Six have blown the Renegades’ underground compound to bits, killing several of Rebecca’s best friends in the process - and to her horror, the boy Rebecca had convinced herself she loved for all these years was the one to betray them all. At the same time, General Specs, the company Liam was once slated to inherit, has developed a super intelligent robot called Jaguar which is quickly becoming godlike in her omniscience. As the remaining Renegades flee to their last bastion of safety in the Caribbean, Liam makes his way back to London, in a last ditch effort to convince his father to destroy Jaguar before it’s too late.
Rebecca, meanwhile, finally understands her own heart: she never loved Andy. He was merely a "safe" choice who would never require anything of her. Liam, on the other hand, exasperating as he was, had seen past her defenses. All of his teasing and provoking had been his attempt to get her to be real with him - but the more he made her feel, the further she had retreated. She had even substituted her companion bot Madeline for real, deep human friendships, and for the same reason: she’d been avoiding love to protect herself from another loss like the one she had experienced when her father was killed for the Renegades’ cause. Ironically, she only realizes this once Liam is on his way to a similar fate. But she’ll be damned if she lets him go without a fight.
This high stakes conclusion to the Uncanny Valley Trilogy envisions a world not too far off from our own, in which super intelligence is a reality, humanoid bots have supplanted human power and influence, and there are eyes watching and reporting our every move. If humanity is to survive, the Renegades will have to galvanize support across the globe, under the radar - and it will require every last bit of ingenuity they possess. But is attempting to outwit a super intelligent being really the answer? Or will it require something much more fundamentally human?
READ MORE . . . JAGUAR  (Uncanny Valley Series, #3) . . . GIVEAWAY . . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

SPOTLIGHT Audio - YA SCI-FI - THE SILVER SIX (Uncanny Valley Series, #2) by C.A. Gray Narrator: Melissa Williams

THE SILVER SIX
Uncanny Valley Series, #2
by C.A. Gray
Narrator: Melissa Williams
Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing
Released: September 14th 2018
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Rebecca Cordeaux's entire world has been turned upside down. In a single day, she's learned that Senate Leader Halpert and his board of advisors are actually illegal humanoid robots created underground 20 years ago - and they tried to have her killed. Her mother, Karen, whom she always believed to be passionately against the cause of the Renegades, turns out to be their leader. And Liam, a man she never thought she cared for, is now fighting for his life - and she finds that she cares desperately.  
Fortunately, Karen, known to the Renegades as M, has planned for exactly this sort of eventuality. Using Rebecca's father's blueprints, Karen patiently built an underground compound in an abandoned part of the Americas where they can regroup and plan for the coming war. The compound becomes an unlikely oasis as their number grows, both on accident and on purpose. 

In attempting to recover her best friend and companion bot, Madeline, Rebecca gets what she thought she'd always wanted: Andy arrives at the compound, too, along with her friends Jake and Julie. But with the sudden addition of an old flame from Liam's past, Rebecca discovers just how little acquainted she has been with her own heart.  

Meanwhile, the Silver Six are running a worldwide campaign of indoctrination to ensure that the people are on their side. In the name of peace, they want nothing more than to wipe out every shred of resistance while pursuing their ultimate goal of robotic superintelligence. With the assistance of a neuroscientist who helped to build the Silver Six decades ago, Rebecca attempts to understand how synthetic minds work, hoping this information can be used against them. 
She's sure the mysterious, brilliant, and beautiful Alessandra Russo is the key somehow, but Alex's hatred for the Silver Six is only matched by her hatred for the Renegades. 

Can the Renegades find and exploit the weakness of the Silver Six before synthetic intelligence passes the point of no return?

READ MORE . . . THE SILVER SIX (Uncanny Valley Series, #2) . . . GIVEAWAY . . .

Saturday, July 21, 2018

SPOTLIGHT Audiobook - YA Sci-Fi - The Eden Conspiracy (The Liberty Box series, #2) by C.A. Gray Narrator: Melissa Williams

The Eden Conspiracy
The Liberty Box series, #2
by C.A. Gray
Narrator: Melissa Williams
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction
The refugee caves have been destroyed, and most of the refugees are dead. The Potentate now knows of their existence and will stop at nothing to wipe them out completely. He suspects that terrorist Jackson MacNamera is among them, as well as reporter Kate Brandeis's fiancé, hacker Will Anderson - and probably therefore Kate herself. Now that the Potentate is aware of security threats, most of the strategies the rebels used to get back onto the grid before now no longer work. The Potentate knows the rebels are on foot, and he knows they were at the caves not long ago. They can't get far.

The remaining rebels, among them Jackson and Kate, have Kate's fiancé Will to thank for their survival: he arrived back from the dead and in the nick of time, bearing classified information about the Potentate's plans to expand his influence internationally. But the remaining rebels and the Council cannot agree on whether their top priority should be spreading truth far and wide and freeing as many citizens from government control as possible, knowing that they will likely die in the process, or escaping to New Estonia, in hopes that they might live out the rest of their days in peace.  

Kate, meanwhile, finds herself torn between Jackson and the fiancé she thought she lost, and between the damsel-in-distress she once was, and the rebel she believes she has always been underneath. Whether the other hunters will support her or no, she knows she must use her influence over the people of the Republic to tell them the truth, no matter the cost. But is she strong enough to withstand the government's lies?

READ MORE . . . THE EDEN CONSPIRACY (The Liberty Box series, #2) . . .