Review: Artificial Intelligence...not so artifiical
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
I absolutely LOVED this short story...and like other reviewers, would delight in a series or full-length fiction based on this futuristic/ sci-fi world created in GLITCH.  This is my first exposure to work by N. M. Lombardi...and I already want more!Within moments of starting this short story, I felt such compassion and sympathy for the android, whose wretched life experience and suffering were so very human.  Gabriel (the android) was a sympathetic, lovable character, and I wanted so desperately to see him safe, happy, cared for.  Any fiction that can make me FEEL like this book deserves all five stars.  Kudos to the writer!I'm impressed with so very much about this short story-- an economy of words and scenes (nothing extraneous), compelling secondary characters (that reveal so very much about the good and bad of human nature), the truth of what constitutes emotions and feelings, a fresh concept, satisfying conclusion wherein characters remained vitally true to themselves.Highly recommended-- and a reader need *not* be a fan of sci-fi to enjoy it!