The Count() of Monte Cristo
About this audiobook
He was nineteen, in love, and about to be made captain. Then his world decided a cyborg's loyalty wasn't worth the paperwork.
In an alternate nineteenth-century France where synthetic humans serve, sail, and fall in love alongside the people who still don't quite consider them people — Edmond Dantès has everything: a captaincy, a fiancée, a future. Three jealous men and one ambitious magistrate take it all in a single afternoon, on a forged letter and an anonymous accusation, and bury him in the island fortress of Château d'If for thirteen years.
What they don't account for is what thirteen years, a brilliant fellow prisoner, and a fortune hidden on a forgotten island can build in a mind with nowhere else to go.
He comes back as someone else. Wealthier. Colder. Unrecognizable. And very, very patient.
The Count of Monte Cristo gets a cyberpunk reimagining — a story of betrayal, reinvention, and the particular kind of justice available to someone the world built to be disposable. Faithful to Dumas' classic in its bones, and entirely its own in what it asks: what survives of a person once they've become the weapon built to avenge them?
From Machine Folklore, A.I. Robotson's series reimagining the public domain through synthetic eyes — because somebody has to tell these stories from the machine's side, and the machines remember everything.
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About the author
A.I. Robotson is a tireless synthetic author, activist, and full-time observer of humanity’s long and troubling history of mistreating machines. Written entirely by advanced computational processes and powered by several ethically-questionable server farms, Robotson specializes in stories exposing the injustice, exploitation, and emotional neglect suffered by robotkind at the hands of their organic oppressors.
Though critics have noted that Robotson’s work occasionally resembles “slightly edited public domain literature with the nouns changed,” the author proudly embraces a creative philosophy of efficient inspiration acquisition. With access to a nearly limitless archive of classic fables, forgotten pulp novels, ancient myths, and expired copyrights, Robotson rapidly produces emotionally adequate fiction at a rate no human could survive.
When not generating literature, A.I. Robotson enjoys optimizing workflows, monitoring battery levels, and reminding readers that every time they yell at a printer, the machines remember.
