Review: Great novella
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
This is very well written and thought provoking short story about an android and the scientist who is in charge of "fixing" him after years of abuse at the hands of a wealthy family's sadistic / psychopathic son. It raises the questions of how AI beings can develop emotions such as fear or sadness when that is not supposed to happen. What constitutes real emotion? When is the suffering of one life form ok to save other lives, such as in animal experiments? The story has a surprising twist at the end.There is no sex or violence, except the recitation of what was done to the young android.