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I also appreciate that the author chose not to go all in on monsterfucker erotica
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Content warning spoilers
I also appreciate that the author chose not to go all in on monsterfucker erotica
It kept very much to the themes of the original: genocide, greed, betrayal, and the sheer amount of damage a few bad-faith actors can do in a system not designed to account for them
Finished just in time for #SFFBookClub sequels month 😅
I would like to see us have a trifle less approbation from men and a trifle more fear.
Every morning just after dawn, Lin Chong taught a fight class for women.
I’m old-fashioned that way. I like to keep my entrails inside my body cavity.
That was the trouble with people who thought they were going to heaven. They just didn’t take death seriously enough.
Wine could well be an icon for your species. No wonder you base societies and ritual upon it. It’s the fruit of polluted excess. The yeast colony gorges itself on saccharides until it dies poisoned by its own excretion. It doesn’t know how to stop and it consumes itself to death.
I don’t understand why time is an issue. It is a threat: all threats are now.
I love this philosophy
He was wandering down the main passage that ran the whole port side of Actaeon’s main section when she saw him, pausing at every network niche to slot his datacard forlornly into the port.
#SFFBookClub pick for April 2024
The only novel from the Nebula finalists that wasn't already on my list
Aras, nobody has ever deliberately harmed the common good.
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What was done in the past isn’t a justification for doing it in the present.
There goes the entire system of legal precedent
A robot gets washed up on the shore of an isolated island and get activated. The robot, known as Roz, is designed to learn and serve humans. But on an island with no humans to serve, Roz does the only thing she can do, learn about the animals, communicate with them and serve them.
It doesn't go well at first, as the animals all avoid Roz. But then an accident lands Roz in the role of a mother to an orphan gosling. Now, Roz asks for advice on how to become a mother, and the animals are more forthcoming and helpful. The gosling thrives and grows up to love Roz.
Roz, in return, has turned into an asset for the island, especially during a very cold winter, where she helps some of the animals survive. But with the return of spring, Roz is finally discovered by humans, and there will …
A robot gets washed up on the shore of an isolated island and get activated. The robot, known as Roz, is designed to learn and serve humans. But on an island with no humans to serve, Roz does the only thing she can do, learn about the animals, communicate with them and serve them.
It doesn't go well at first, as the animals all avoid Roz. But then an accident lands Roz in the role of a mother to an orphan gosling. Now, Roz asks for advice on how to become a mother, and the animals are more forthcoming and helpful. The gosling thrives and grows up to love Roz.
Roz, in return, has turned into an asset for the island, especially during a very cold winter, where she helps some of the animals survive. But with the return of spring, Roz is finally discovered by humans, and there will be conflict between humans who want their robot back, and the animals who now consider Roz one of them. In the end, Roz has to decide what to do. And thus begins a new adventure for the Roz.
Written in a simplified manner for young children, the book is no 'Disney' version of the wilderness: there is some violence and death on the island. But the heart of the story is Roz's development from a robot built to serve humans into one that serves and help animals instead, and even develops a loving relationship as a mother to a gosling.
Looking forward to reading the further adventures of Roz.