It started off quite interesting, but I wasn't fussy over how the plot wrapped itself together.What was with the Susan/Portia/Gladys thing? So confused. A lot of the ending was just too heavy-handed, I think. And lovey-dovey.
Amy is a robot. Amy eats grandmother. Nice touch. Amy goes on the run. Amy gets attacked. Amy fights back. Amy gets captured. Amy gets rescued. Loop. That's somewhat unfair of me, but at one level, that's mostly what happens. She regenerates after injury, which happens a lot. She acquir...
I said it at the time, and I stand by it: BEST PROLOGUE EVER! The author's experience with strategic foresight shines through in the richly detailed world-building, and the carefully constructed characters - both synthetic and organic, and their interactions. It's fascinating, heartbreaking, and all...
Amy is a vN, a self-replicating humanoid robot. She is programmed to love humanity, to obey them. The failsafe that insures that love will destroy her if she even witnesses violence against humans, let alone participates. Or maybe she isn't. Maybe she has no failsafe at all, and can act as sh...
I've owned this book for several months and now after finishing it I'm left wondering--why did it take me so long to get around to reading it? It's actually a 4+ for me, really. There were so many things I found fascinating about the world and about the society and especially about families, all kin...
Reminiscent of Asimov but entirely new in the way it handles the idea of intelligent, artificial life, vN explores the lives future synthetic beings can expect to live. Like Asimov’s robots, Ashby’s vN (von-Neumann humanoid robots) are subject to a failsafe: witnessing human pain can result in sever...
Impossible to put down. It's been ages since I've picked up an honest-to-goodness sci-fi book with actual robots in it, and this is a sweet and clever return. It's amazingly heartfelt, for a story about artificial human beings, but it never moralizes and makes you feel like you just sat through a Su...
As seen on Stumptown Books.What an interesting book! Although fantasy will always be my first love, I'm trying to become more familiar with sci-fi themes.For example, I had never heard of a von Neumann machine. It's an important point to know about before going into this book as it's never really st...
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