Memento

An Illuminae Files Novella

By: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: India Dupré, James Fouhey, Lincoln Hoppe, Emma Bering, Johnathan McClain, Ryan Gesell, Full Cast

From New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel novella that gives listeners a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN--and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.

AIDAN is the AI you'll love to hate.

The advanced AI system was supposed to protect a fleet of survivors who'd escaped the deadly attack on Kerenza IV. AIDAN was supposed to be infallible. But in the chaotic weeks and months that followed, it became clear that something was terribly, terribly wrong with AIDAN...

Narrators:
Olivia Klein, read by India Dupré
Ethan Wolf, read by James Fouhey
AIDAN, read by Lincoln Hoppe
Stephanie LeFevre, read by Emma Bering
Ezra Mason, read by Johnathan McClain
Narrator, read by Ryan Gesell

Featuring additional performances by Danny Campbell, Frankie Corzo, Chris Cuilla, Deepti Gupta, John Lee, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Donabella Mortel, Austin Rising, Erin Spencer, and Nancy Wu.

Great Prequel

Provides some good insight into AIDAN before we see the story from Illuminae. Wished it had been a bit longer.

This explains so much!

If you need more illuminae files then get this. Even though it is short it is totally worth it. Explains why AIDEN is the way he is. AIDEN could make reading the dictionary sound sinister, love it!

One caveat is the background noise in some chapters is annoying and a few times almost painful. Hissing and static and high pitched noises.

lmao i love AIDAN

(also it’s kinda funny that my fav character from a different book has the same narrator) AIDAN I love you! Plus, emailing Olivia a 17,000 digit mathematical formula of hope at 4 am is freaking hilarious lol UPDATE: I have now listened to the full audiobook. Still love AIDAN. Although he can definitely be… blunt.

DUDE

IM GONNA REREAD THIS WHOLE SERIES NOW ARENT I
Gonna come right out and say it
I CALLED IT
Been patiently waiting for this moment, because it was inevitable.
Feel bad from my international frands who dropped a pretty penny for this though.
What a ride

It was interesting to see how AIDAN got to be AIDAN

Stephanie la Febra’s voice acting left much to be desired, super cheesy. I did like Olivia. I also thought it was interesting Aidan became fascinated with another female character.