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[READ: October 2022] Robo Sapiens : Tales of Tomorrow
I received this book at work and was intrigued to read it (Manga style right to left). It is a collection of connected stories that form a solid plot.
The premise is fairly straightforward–it is the future and robots are now “cyber-persons” with A.I. brains with their own culture.
The story opens with a robot salvager relating Simon Chan’s case. Chan was over 120 years old and only called on the main character because the story had to be kept hush hush.
His request was straightforward–find a robot that he has lost fifty years ago. But the realty was more difficult–in the last fifty years it was probably scrapped. But Chan was insistent–Letitia is still alive.
The back story is that Chan and Letitia were the IT couple of the day fifty years ago. But when he lost her to an accident, he went into seclusion. A year later he returned to the public eye with a robotic Letitia–this was long before such a thing was accepted. The story has an interesting twist involving the true identity of Simon Chan.
The second story is one of romance between characters who believe they are robots and are visiting the site of a robotic graveyard, Robot Hill.
Story three is a nearly wordless story about chromobots travelling through time to caveman days. (more…)
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