Review: Anabaptist Android
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
The Terminator Movies destroyed the world where peaceful androids might continue to exist as servants to men and this science fiction talky disappoints a little. The author has skillfully eked out a story of what happens when man frees androids from subjugation by removing the Laws of Robotics. (Robots shouldn't harm humans, should strive to survive but never let striving to survive interfere with not harming humans).Where she disappoints is in trying to accomplish this story in a very short version making the reader wonder and wander about, reading and then rereading the prose, pressing it to his nose and otherwise not understanding very many of the concepts.She is so very good at dialog and the clever use of the call in radio show is ingenious. However, a full display of human bigotry and stupidity doesn't inform the reader of very much. We know that already. Humans are bigoted and stupid and it doesn't take a machine interview to tell us that.If the reader is intrigued by, an examination of, what it means to be a human and what it means to have beliefs that can't be easily explained except by faith, this is an outstanding book. If the reader is looking for a mystery or action thriller, this story doesn't have those things in it. Still, it is an intriguing question. If things you once believed are taken away what comes in to replace those beliefs?Papa DeanAuthor ofRevenge of the Video Game