Madeline Ashby grew up in a household populated by science fiction fans. She graduated from a Jesuit university in 2005, after having written a departmental honors thesis on science fiction. After meeting Ursula K. LeGuin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company that year, she decided to start writing science fiction stories. She has been published in Tesseracts, Flurb, Nature, Escape Pod and elsewhere. Currently, she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto.
"vN did not disappoint. It is a fantastic adventure story that
carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege,
gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never
boring."
– Cory Doctorow
“If you have been missing the kind of
thought-provoking-yet-exciting stories about artificial creatures
that only come along once in a while, vN is well worth grabbing.
It's disturbing and sometimes upsetting — but the ending is a giant
insane weird thrill that makes the whole thing pay off.”
– Charlie Jane Andres for io9.com
"Picks up where Blade Runner left off and maps territories Ridley
Scott barely even glimpsed. (Philip K Dick would have been at
home here, but Ashby's prose is better.) vN might just be the most
piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all
off with the Three Laws."
– Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
"VN fuses cyberpunk with urban fantasy to produce something wholly
new. Thre's a heavy kicker in every chapter. Zombie
robots, vampire robots, robots as strange and gnarly as human
beings. A page-turning treat."
– Rudy Rucker, author of the WARE TETRALOGY
"Ashby's debut novel is brimming with ideas..."
-SFX Magazine
“vN is a thrilling adventure story with a well-developed cast
of both humans and vNs, which challenges the meaning of being a
person without ever being preachy about it.”
– Steve Jones, Terror Tree
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