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Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. She has been writing fiction since she was about thirteen years old. (Before that, she recited all her stories aloud, with funny voices and everything.) Her fiction has appeared in Nature, Tesseracts, Escape Pod, FLURB, the Shine Anthology, and elsewhere. Her non-fiction has appeared at BoingBoing.net, io9.com, Tor.com, Online Fandom, and WorldChanging. She is a member of the Cecil Street Irregulars, one of Toronto's oldest genre writers' workshops. She holds a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (her thesis was on anime, fan culture, and cyborg theory) and a M.Des. in strategic foresight & innovation (her project was on the future of border s...more


Recently, Feminist Frequency recommended vN to its Twitter feed, which caused one follower to ask: “Interesting, how do you know when a self replicating robot is female?”


I had to think about this for a second. Or, more accurately, I had to re-enter the headspace I inhabited when I wrote early drafts of vN. The female characters who had inspired me to write Amy, like Motoko Kusanagi and Rei Ayan...

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Average rating: 3.53 · 691 ratings · 186 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
vN (The Machine Dynasty, #1)
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
iD (The Machine Dynasty, #2)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 6 editions
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Shine: An Anthology of Opti...
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing ...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007
Imaginarium 2012: The Best ...
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4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Madeline Ashby said "yes" to attending "vN" Launch Fiesta
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date: September 08, 2012 03:00PM
location: Bakka Phoenix Books , 84 Harbord Street, Toronto, Canada
description: Although my debut novel "vN" drops 31 July, we're waiting to September (when everyone is back from vacation and conventions) to celebrate. So, on Saturday 8 September at 3pm, please join me at Bakka Phoneix Books in Toronto for a launch fiesta. I will be signing books, reading, and I'll have some surprises up my sleeve. I hope to see you there!
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“She belongs with me, not to me.”
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“It always takes Ignacio a minute to put his sexy together.”
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