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    SINthetic
    SINthetic
    SINthetic
    Audiobook7 hours

    SINthetic

    Written by J.T. Nicholas

    Narrated by Brian Hutchison

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    They look like us. Act like us. Burrt they are not human. Created to perform the menial tasks real humans detest, Synths were designed with only a basic intelligence and minimal emotional response. It stands to reason that they have no rights. Like any technology, they are designed for human convenience. Disposable. In the city of New Lyons, Detective Jason Campbell is investigating a vicious crime: a female body found mutilated and left in the streets. Once the victim is identified as a Synth, the crime is designated no more than the destruction of property, and Campbell is pulled from the case. But when a mysterious stranger approaches Campbell and asks him to continue his investigation in secret, Campbell is dragged into a dark world of unimaginable corruption. One that leaves him questioning the true nature of humanity. And what he discovers is only the beginning . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781501978074
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    J.T. Nicholas

    J.T. Nicholas is the author of the upcoming science fiction novel Re-Coil and the neo-noir science-fiction series The New Lyons Sequence. When not writing, J.T. spends his time practising a variety of martial arts, playing games (video, tabletop, and otherwise), and reading everything he can get his hands on. He currently resides in Wilmington, North Carolina with his wife.

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    • 5/5
      Being able to dominate a subordinate group of individuals is innately appealing. It appeals to an inner devil in our nature. As much as we condemn slavery today, I’m of the opinion that there are very few of us who wouldn’t want a slave if it were legally possible and socially approved. It is the legality of slavery that empowers individuals to exercise their dominating desire. Legitimacy backed up by governmental law enforcement is what made early American slavery possible. The book SINthetic is about a society where that legitimacy exists and shows that ethnic group discrimination and ethnic group blaming are only possible when governments openly or subtly condone it. Slavery and indenturement were often cited in the old testament. Slave behavior patterns were established and paths that slaves could follow to earn freedom for themselves and their families were recognized. The book title, “SINthetic”, describes a group of people who are grown in a lab for the purpose of providing menial labor for a society that felt themselves above such tasks. SINthetics are used as sex objects and slaves. They are mentally programmed for obedience. SINthetics have no rights and are considered property under the law. They bought and sold and can be abused, as American slaves sometimes were, with total impunity. In the book, one man decides to take up their cause. Hoping to shame society, he brings out the proof that SINthetics are as human as their owners. “SINthetic” is the story about that man and how he came to that realization. This was a troubling story to read as it exposes the hidden daemon in our nature that makes slavery possible. I found myself contemplating the possibility of slavery today every time I put the book down at the end of a reading session. Living in South Florida over the past 38 years, I have heard people brag about how they employ illegal immigrant laborers for low wages, sometimes even not paying them, and threatening to report them to the INS whenever they complain. Isn’t today in this regard a form of slavery?I hope the author continues to follow this disturbing issue as we all need a reminder of the innate devil that makes slavery possible. These occasional reminders topple us from the superiority platform we think that we occupy when judging others who discriminate against those who are different than ourselves.
    • 5/5
      In a bleak future where the city of New Orleans has been wiped out by superstore, the city of Floattown and New Lyons have been built over and adjacent to the sunken city. It is a future where 'synthetics’, humans created in labs, are used for many different purposes, including as sex toys. We open with Detective Campbell at a murder scene, where a young woman has been eviscerated, and left in the street like trash. And to her killer, and those called to process the site alike, she is nothing more than. Why? Because she is a synthetic, considered property, not human. To consider the synths as anything other than property would call into question all the heinous uses they are put to. But to Campbell, labelled a synth-sympathiser, this woman deserves justice. What he search turns up is far beyond what he could have imagined, a truth to shake the very foundation of society.SINthetic is a brilliant gritty noir detective story illuminating what it truly means to be 'human’, to have sentience and self-sovereignty. Likewise, it shines a light into the darkest depths of what it means to be inhuman, to be monstrous, and without soul, for what else can you call it when a people create life, only to abuse and debase it? I loved the writing, but it did leave me feeling skeezy and nauseous, because of how the synths were treated. They are property and so it's perfectly acceptable to torture, rape, and kill them. Violent crime is considered almost nonexistent, not because the violence doesn't happen, but because it only happens to non-people. It happens to property. These topics arise, but Nicholas doesn't go into extreme graphic detail, thankfully. I suppose reactions come from being an empath, and overly compassionate person. I just cannot fathom how people can consider other people as property, and that's made worse because these people made the synths in a lab, and somehow thought that made them less than human when it's clear they have spirit and soul. This reminded me of the Star Trek: Next Gen episode 'The Measure of a Man’, where Lt Commander Data’s sentience and self-sovereignty is questioned, and put on trial when a Starfleet cyberneticist wants to shut him down and disassemble him to learn how he was created. No, son. Don't be an asshole. There were undertones of Masterpiece Theatre's The Last Enemy, with how the cameras once used for traffic and other cc cameras are used to monitor the population. Camera clusters cover almost the entirety of the city, so there's very little privacy. I'm definitely looking forward to the continuation of this series! Highly recommended if you like fantasy/sci-fi oriented crime thrillers with a deep emotional punch.***Many thanks to Silver Dagger Blog Tours and the author for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
    • 4/5
      Blade Runner reduxIn 1982 I saw Blade Runner with two friends, one who, like me, was a serious SF reader and the other who was not. The SF novice thought the film was odd and had no idea that there could be any deep meaning in the story, I and the other friend talked at length about the film's exploration of what it means to be human. In SINthetic, we have a book that puts that question right up front. The global economy is propped up by Synths, replicants as in Blade Runner, but more tightly programmed for obedience. Synths can't do anything, even indirectly, that might result in harm to humans. Killing a Synth is considered property damage, not murder, and is a crime seldom investigated by police. Most people are like my friend (or visitors to WestWorld in the current TV serial), they don't find an existential question in Synths. Yet New Lyons Detective Jason Campbell and other hardened police officers are put off by grotesquely disemboweled female Synths scattered across the city. Detective Campbell is an unusual policeman with an unusual history, and he is unhappy that he may not investigate the mutilations. These killings look like practice runs for a serial killer who is working up the courage to attack humans. Detective Campbell would be determined to find him even if he were not being pushed to greater efforts by a mysterious, autonomous Synth who wants to keep the investigation going.As the pressure mounts, we learn more about Detective Campbell and his motivations and we learn more about the invisible Synths.I liked the book and look forward to the sequel. I must warn you though that I find Mr. Nichols' physiology improbable and his grasp of the Three Laws of Robotics a bit weak.I received a review copy of "SINthetic" by J.T. Nicholas (Rebel Base Books) through NetGalley.com.