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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. Her work has been nominated for the Locus and Kitschie awards. Currently, she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto. www.madelineashby.com
vN did not disappoint. It isa fantastic adventure story that carries a slyphilosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. Itis 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
