SOUNDTRACK: hiatus
[READ: March 2022] Jailbroke
This was the third of three books by Asman that I received at work. It was also the least enjoyable of the three.
The story is a simple one. Set in the future when humans are not the greatest species on the planet (they go by Terrans now), a spaceship that is run primarily by AI is ferrying humans around. Using Asimov’s first principal, the AI, who are now vastly smarter and more useful than thehumans, cannot harm the humans. Their existence is predicated on the fact that are have to help the humans.
Until, that is, one of them is accidentally fed biofuel that has a human part in it. This jailbreaks their programming and allows them to kill humans indiscriminately.
Since this is a spaceship (a bottle episode), there’s not a lot that can happen.
In Nunchuck City, Asman delighted in violence. In this story, he delights in gore. Like the way he describes in loving detail how the space drill works on someone’s skull. (more…)
