Electric Blues
Meet Arty PA3025. He’s a robot, and he’s depressed. Unemployed and horribly obsolete, his future looks bleak—and that’s just what he tells his programmer-cum-therapist, Knickers. But then he meets Madeline, an ornery senior with a pair of arthritic cats and a fear of modern electronic...
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Meet Arty PA3025. He’s a robot, and he’s depressed. Unemployed and horribly obsolete, his future looks bleak—and that’s just what he tells his programmer-cum-therapist, Knickers. But then he meets Madeline, an ornery senior with a pair of arthritic cats and a fear of modern electronic accoutrements. They team up, an outdated robot and a senile old woman, to begin together a quest for relevance in an all too cold and uncaring world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780615914596 (0615914594)
Publish date: November 21st 2013
Publisher: Sisyphean Publishing
Pages no: 66
Edition language: English
Arty is an obsolete model of personal assistant droid, specifically model PA3025. Employment has become increasingly difficult to come by as newer and faster models become available. So, he’s on the government unemployment which means he has a case worker, Knickers. And Knickers has a subtle plan to...
I thought this was a great short story. The only problem with it, as far as I am concerned, was that it was over too quickly. Great characters, you immediately feel like you know them. I hope the author plans to maybe continue on with another story or two about Madeline and Arty.
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