JURIS EX MACHINA, an award-winning science fiction legal thriller by John W. Maly, available now as audiobook performed by award-winning narrator Marc Thompson
Hello again, dear audiobook friends!
Today’s spotlight article is dedicated to JURIS EX MACHINA, an award-winning science fiction legal thriller by John W. Maly, available now as audiobook performed by award-winning narrator Marc Thompson.
The audiobook has a duration of 14 hours and 16 minutes, giving listeners plenty of time to explore John W. Maly’s vision of a future where human error has supposedly been removed from the justice system.
The narrator, Marc Thompson is an Audie Award-winning voice actor and one of the most recognizable narrators in the audiobook world, with more than 40 Disney Star Wars audiobooks among his narration credits.
Now, let’s take a closer look at the Publisher’s Summary:
With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color.
Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest—
as exotic as it was sinister;
when it activated, 368 people would die.
In the 22nd century, the justice system is airtight in the domed city of Arcadia. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks and is wrongfully convicted of mass murder.
He is exiled to Wychwood Prison, a crumbling necropolis beyond the dome where the dead outnumber the living, where the inmates are also the guards. News of the crime follows him, and he becomes a marked man.
Rainville’s only hope for survival is becoming the first inmate in history to escape Wychwood. Can he do it? The fate of Arcadia depends on it.
Now, let me tell you a little bit about our author, John W. Maly, and the talented narrator who brings JURIS EX MACHINA to life.
John W. Maly
John W. Maly is an award-winning science fiction author and technology strategist. He holds 17 U.S. patents and degrees in law, computer engineering, computer science, and psychology, and is a graduate of Stanford University’s novel-writing program. When he isn’t writing, Maly works as an intellectual-property litigation consultant and expert witness, building on earlier experience as a microprocessor hardware engineer and Unix software engineer. His debut novel, JURIS EX MACHINA, won Best Science Fiction Novel at the 2025 American Fiction Awards and the 2025 Best Book Awards, following its 2024 Indies Today win in the same category.
Marc Thompson
Marc Thompson is an Audie Award-winning voice actor and one of audiobook’s most recognizable narrators, having voiced more than 40 of Disney’s Star Wars audiobooks. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he made his Broadway debut in Talk Radio opposite Liev Schreiber and has voiced dozens of animated characters on such shows as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokémon, and MTV’s Daria. He brings that same range of voices to his performance of JURIS EX MACHINA.
I will return soon with a full review of JURIS EX MACHINA, but until then, take care, stay safe, and don’t forget, always listen with your heart.
Victor Dima
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