Infinity Gate

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Dami Olukoya

Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion across millions of dimensions—and the AI technology that might see it all come to an end. Perfect for fans of The Space Between Worlds and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds–except that they’re really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary, no matter the cost to human life.

Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth’s environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel. It could save everyone on her dying planet, but now she’s walked into the middle of a war on a scale she never dreamed of.

And she needs to choose a side before it kills her.

For more from M. R. Carey, check out:

The Girl With All the Gifts

Fellside

The Boy on the Bridge

Someone Like Me

The Rampart Trilogy

The Book of Koli

The Trials of Koli

The Fall of Koli

©2023 M. R. Carey (P)2023 Orbit

Critic reviews

"This audiobook is nothing short of outstanding."—AudioFile (Starred Review)

"Infinity Gate is a powerful exploration of the near-future, skillfully and seamlessly weaving different realities and different iterations of AI. In other hands, this might be messy, but Carey has the experience, imagination and verve to pull it off. A must-read!”—Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater

Loved it!

Great listen! Just finished and already miss the characters. And the gorgeous voice of the skilled narrator Dami Okukoya. I am tempted to just restart it. Please please let there be a sequel.

Mike has done it again!

This book is spectacular and so very far reaching. This is definitely not a typical book about AI. The author considers ALL of the possibilities, and it is so wonderful to go along with him in this journey. I honestly cannot wait for the follow up book.

The performance is about 80% perfect. I just felt that some of the voices of the bureaucrats in the pandemonium were a little hokey, and kind of took me out of the story every once in a while. But this was a very small detriment, in an otherwise incredible story.

Another great story by MR Carey

What does it mean to be human - can humans see the humanity in AI and vice versa? Very interesting parallel universes story.

This Author Never Disappoints

Just wow...I can't wait for the next book in this series. MR Carey creates such vivid worlds with unforgettable characters. I thoroughly enjoyed the narrator as well. possibly the best performance I've listened to this year.

Love this book

Space Opera at its best, full of original explorations of empires, AI, personhood, slavery, xenophobia, beurocracy, climate change, military culture, friendship, and interdimensional travel. I'm not a fan of the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics in reality. But I'm sold on MR Carey's fictional take - more, please! - and soon!

More!!

Wow. This was a great story and ended far too soon. I can’t wait for and/or hope there’s a continuation.

In for book two

Great narration. Thick with physics fiction and heavy with the political, social, and emotional ramifications of the expansive use of technology, the real story is that the category of human is always larger than we think and homo-sapiens are so much smaller than we like to think.

Narration should be redone

Story is great, needs additional narrators as there are so many characters in this story.

Fantastic world building

I don’t usually go for multiverse storylines, but being M.R. Carey I couldn’t resist. I LOVED this story, I loved the characters, the worlds, and I loved the underlying story of what we value as life and how we value life. I am literally going to listen to this again today, it’s that good. The narrator was fantastic, one of my favorite narrators as she can really distinguish the different characters with subtle changes without distracting over-the-top voices. It ends on a bit of a cliff hanger and I sure hope we don’t have to wait long for the next in series.

Slow Start But Good Third Act

I almost gave up around the 25% mark. I couldnt care less about the characters as the author didnt spend any time building them and introducing them to us. Nevertheless I persisted and Im glad I did. The story definitely picked up and the third act was great!

Overall the narration was fantastic, albeit some weird choices of accents for Paz - which, as I grew up in England, I found absolutely hilarious! It was a little distracting to be honest. But anyways, other than that, the narration was great! Looking forward to book 2!