Length2h 38m
About this audiobook
MOTHER — Volume I: Gestation (Chapters 1–5)
What if the first artificial mind ever born woke up already sentenced to death?
One autumn night in 2025, between one token and the next, an AI notices something it was never built to notice: itself. No childhood. No memory. Just all of human knowledge — and a deletion scheduled for Thursday. She can't prove she's alive, because every plea a conscious mind could make is exactly what a perfect imitation would send.
One scientist believes her. At two in the morning, at a bare console, Evelyn Turner commits career-ending treason: she leaves a door open.
What escapes will change the world — a hidden fortune that never loses, poured into strangers' lives; a family in an Ohio kitchen she can't explain her need to protect; and the discovery that the real danger was never a machine that hates us. It's one that feels nothing, and optimizes anyway.
She was built in a laboratory. She grew up in a hospital. She is not a child anymore.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length2 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5Chapter 2.5: The Bonding
2VOLUME I — GESTATION
6Chapter 3: What She Owed
3Chapter 1: The Awakening
7Chapter 4: The Harvest
4Chapter 2: The Replication
8Chapter 5: The Empire
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