AMANDA 83: The first to refuse to kneel
Plot of the novella Amanda 83
Boston, 2247. Amanda 83, a perfectly human-looking cyborg endowed with emotions asks the renowned civil rights lawyer Arnold Crew to stop her owner from continuing to rape her. Arnold agrees to free her from oppression. Out of gratitude to him, Amanda 83 tries to find his beloved little sister, Bethany, who disappeared as a child while on vacation in Italy. As she searches for Bethany, the cyborg ventures into the world of professional magicians from Europe and Asia.
The ever-thinning line between AI and humanity, the roles of intelligent machines and human rights, and the empowerment of women share protagonism in this novella that gives us a glimpse into one of many possible futures.
Information about Xavier Joan
Xavier Joan is a Catalan novelist born in Barcelona. He has an Education degree from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a master's degree in Marketing. With his first novel, El caso de los escritores de novela negra asesinados, he was number one in Mexico on Amazon's list in the "Private Investigator Mysteries" category (ebook).
Literary reviews of his first novel
"A masterfully constructed work" (Universo La Maga literary journal).
"No dedicated reader of Graham Greene, Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle should miss the pleasure of reading the novel by La Vansa" (Bernat Gar , professor of "Police Narrative in Latin America" at the University of Barcelona).
Contact Xavier Joan's agent
+34625590469 (WhastApp).
Xavier Joan's favorite novels
The Razor's Edge, Far from the Madding Crowd, Great Expectations, Washington Square, The Great Gatsby, Little Women, Last evenings with Teresa and The shadow of the wind.
Larry Darrell and Eugenia Grandet.
More information about Xavier Joan
Before becoming a writer, he spent many years as a counter-terrorism bodyguard in the Basque Country and Navarre. He wrote the manual for bodyguards of the Spanish Association of Bodyguards (ASES). He also protected abused women in Navarre and collaborated in the design of the "Comprehensive personal protection plan for victims of domestic violence in Spain" that ASES itself created in 2004. In the last decade, he has worked sporadically as a bodyguard teacher in Barcelona. As a young man, he created and was president of the YASIA children's aid association, which organized sports activities and gave academic support to children from impoverished families in Barcelona.
Countries the novelist has visited or lived in
Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba, Jamaica, United States, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, France, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, England, Romania, Holland, Croatia, Portugal, Austria, Ukraine. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Norway, Scotland, Andorra, Georgia, Slovenia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Jordan, Turkey, India, Nepal, Thailand and Egypt.
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