Review: Love and Betrayal from Unexpected Sources
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
This futuristic story covers some of the same themes as Orwell's book, 1984. The government thinks it knows best, and we all know how that turns out.Humans are being encouraged to transition from their bodies to their clone-looking robot replicas. Their "life expectancies" will will be virtually forever. Joe is one of the remaining souls who hasn't undergone the Transition. Not only does that eventually put him on the endangered species list, but it puts him in danger as well.At one point, the protagonist gets locked in with a room where the human bodies, the Husks, are stored after Transition. If that name isn't some creepy symbolism, I don't know what is.In this well-written story, humans are becoming more machine-like while, ironically, an old android prototype named Destiny is becoming more human. Love and betrayal are an integral and interesting part of the creative plot, but for me, the most thought-provoking concept was that of allowing the government to make decisions that can take away certain freedoms and yet have so few people question it. And just how far away in the future is this brainwashing? Or has it already started? What is OUR Destiny?