Review: Science fiction story about a world inhabited by robots, full of allegory
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
“The One Who Turned Them On” by Ryan Sean O'Reilly is a science fiction story about a world inhabited by robots, story that is full of allegory.Its plot is set on the planet populated by alien robots while they’re struggling to find purpose after being abandoned by those who created them.In civilization the robots have established, a conflict will erupt between on the first look invincible robot-collective and main character Ophis, at first sight an insignificant and crippled worker-bot who represents many injured and disabled machines in danger…“The One Who Turned Them On” at first glance is quite reminiscent of Wall-E, and although the story main characters are robots novel is full of conveyed meaning and allegory.The story is written from the two perspectives, one of god-like weather machine and the other of weak tunnel-bot.The end of story may disappoint those who want all the explanations and the full outcome because the author leaves much in the air, not fully explained.However, given that this is the second title in the robot-themed series reader can be anxious to following extensions in which we would be able to find out what will be happening next...