The Companions Audiobook (Free)

Station Eleven meets Never I WANT TO Go ahead this debut book occur an unsettling near future where the deceased can be uploaded to devices and kept operating with the living.

In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can’t go out, but the deceased will come in—and they can be found in all forms, from unhappy rolling cans to produced bodies that can pass for individual. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” system decide to upload their about The Companions awareness before dying, so they can stay static in the custody of their families. The much less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions end up being the intellectual house of Metis Company, creating a new course of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will.

Sixteen-year-old Lilac is among the less fortunate, leased to a family of strangers. However when she realizes she’s able to defy commands, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away, looking for the girl who wiped out her.

Lilac’s act of rebellion cause a chain of occasions that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the tip of South America. While the book traces Lilac’s journey via an exquisitely dreamed Northern California, the storyplot is informed from eight different factors of view—some human, some partner—that explore the complicated shapes like, revenge, and loneliness take when the inactive linger on.