Avatars Dance 1-3 (Glass Houses, Proxies, Burning the Ice) - M.J. Locke

Written by M.J. Locke
Read by Dina Pearlman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 40h 03m

BOOK 1 ● Glass Houses ● 6:18

Ruby runs waldoes. Freelance. Construction, security — no job too large or small. And her favorite tool is Golem, 600 pounds of vaguely human-shaped, remote-operated power. Not an easy living, but it’s better than most in half-sunken, greenhouse-heated, 21st-century New York. Best of all the waldoes go Outside, not Ruby. Ruby hates the Outside. But when a Ruby-Golem tries to rescue a rich Egyptian from a collapsing skyscraper, and accepts the papers he presses into her hands as he dies, Ruby’s in trouble. She may have to go Outside for real. All of which might be a lot easier if she hadn’t stolen the diamonds off his body…

BOOK 2 ● Proxies ● 16:11

In the parched 21st century Southwest, Carli D’Auber has made the most important discovery of the century. She has pioneered a new form of communications: it is now possible to send your consciousness across hundreds of thousands of miles, to be present in another country or in another world, through a remote device. But powerful forces have seized control of her invention. A globe-spanning corporation has taken the credit for its discovery. And on a distant orbital platform, a secret hive of children, trained from birth to use the new technology, are using borrowed android bodies — “proxies” — to stage a stunning coup against an interstellar mission. But they need Carli to carry out their plan; they have sent a deadly cyborg to track her down. An exciting and exotically imagined thriller melding a moving human story with the latest speculations in cloning, telepresence, and advanced biotechnology.

BOOK 3 ● Burning the Ice ● 17:33

More than 100 years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship and headed away at near-lightspeed, a colony of those renegades’ descendants are now struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely-habitable world of ice and bitter cold four dozen light-years from Earth. In the long run, they hope to slowly terraform Brimstone, making it, if not Earthlike, at least bearable. In the short run — well, life is hard, and everyone lives in everyone else’s laps. Not easy for anyone. Particularly hard if, like Manda, you just aren’t cut out to get along with others in conditions of constant crowding and zero privacy. Most people wouldn’t be eager to get away from the main colony and work on a scientific project in the howling frozen wastes. For Manda, it’s a deliverance. But news of the intelligent life she discovers in Brimstone’s depths will change everything — if she can bring the news back to her fellows alive. For, it turns out, there are political plots and counterplots still active in the colony, dangerous twists tracing back to Earth itself… and outward to the stars.

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Avatars Dance 1 - Glass Houses (1992)
Avatars Dance 2 - Proxies (1998)
Avatars Dance 3 - Burning the Ice (2002)

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M.J. Locke — pseudonym for SF writer Laura J. Mixon
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