Archform: Beauty: Volume 1

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

May 2022 · Archform: Beauty Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by BJ Harrison and Tina Wolstencroft

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Four centuries in the future, the world is rich-nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody-but no utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people: a singing teacher, a news researcher, a police investigator, a politician, and a ruthless businessman. Theirs is a society where technology takes care of everyone's basic needs but leaves most people struggling to extract a meaningful life from a world crowded with wonders but empty of commitment and human connection. Alternating the voices and experiences of these five characters in a tour de force of imaginative creation, L. E. Modesitt overlaps, combines, and builds their disparate stories into a brilliant tale of future crime and investigation, esthetic challenge, and personal triumph. In the same way that he has built fantasy landscapes of surpassing fascination, Modesitt creates a believable future, one imbued with a deep understanding of the way politics work and how people act and react when their sense of themselves, of justice, and truth, is exploited by others for power and control. When there's nothing left to need or want, will beauty live on in people's lives or disappear forever?

About the author

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty.

Since iTunes named his as one of the top podcasts of 2007, BJ Harrison has continued to wow audiences. With more than 750 audiobooks to his credit, BJ has an astounding array of character voices, dialects, and accents at his fingertips, coupled with an impressive depth of interpretation.

Tina Wolstencroft is an audiobook narrator with a professional background in improv and sketch comedy. Her youthful energy and timeless soul lends itself to a range of genres, from middle grade/YA and cozy mystery to romance and sci-fi/fantasy.

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