Robbie the Dysfunctional Robot, by D Miller
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Robbie the Dysfunctional Robot, by D Miller
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Tormented by the kitchen appliances and harassed by the house, Robbie the lonely house bot finds solace when he meets other robots and finds that while both himself and his world are more complex and dangerous than he imagined, love trumps oppression. Robbie learns about his forgotten past and meets his embarrassingly human ex-lover George. Robbie needs to find out why and by who his memory was wiped, because while he may have forgotten the past, the past has not forgotten him. As Robbie explores his world, he discovers an underground organisation, the Robot Workers of the World, and meets new people including a satellite called Eric who leads the death star community, a sex toy with gender issues, a Plato-reading dog and three Japanese girl bots with an unreasonable passion for soap opera. But there is also the mysterious and frightening entity under the Antarctic rock and ice. The hidden entity is reaching out to Robbie, but is it friend or foe, and what does it want? Will the entity help or hinder him in resolving the mystery of his existence and escaping the violence of his past?
Robbie the Dysfunctional Robot, by D Miller- Amazon Sales Rank: #2640104 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-07
- Released on: 2015-09-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great Sci-fi tale. By PFID The title of this book somehow gave me the impression that it was an amusing tale about a young robot who would produce such a series of misdemeanours and mistakes that I would wind up holding my aching sides from so much laughter. How wrong I was! While there are many conversations and incidents described in it that can raise a smile and even laughter, overall I found Robbie’s story to be a salutary tale of robot love, heartache, regret and misery. The amazingly naïve Robbie who, as a housebot, dreams of hoovering as a hobby, an aim in life and as a career ambition, discovers that he once had another life before his mundane present existence. His most important discovery initially is the highly pragmatic one of finding out that he is entitled to one day off every week. Omo and Dex, his new companions and future partners in many senses of the word, waste no time in telling Robbie how much he and hundreds of other robots are being exploited by humans. I was reminded at this point in the book of a phrase that I think goes, “oppressed workers of the world rise up and unite”, because so many robots are not aware of their oppression until they are told! Robbie finds many experiences “outside” his domestic and family duties that bring him new pleasures, such as weed and sex.This is a very interesting and intriguing take on a tale about robots that are emotionally sentient, possessing not only an awareness of their existence and the meaning of life, but are capable of a form of devotional love. It is extremely poignant in parts but its main drawback for me was its length. There were several places in the book when I found myself “glazing over” with boredom and disinterest in whatever proceedings took place on the page. That could have been because I was not interested in it or sometimes because the same point was being repeated from a slightly different angle. However, Robbie The Dysfunctional Robot has a lot going for it since it is a great story, very well written and quite different to the usual sci-fi diet of shoot-em-up machines and/or technological wizardry. I was surprised to find that I actually felt sorry for him and his various android comrades, particularly after Robbie unearths his own faults and misdeeds from a previous time before his memory cells have been wiped clean!I was given a copy of the novel in exchange for my honest and objective review.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Robots vs Monkeys By robby charters Many novels and films featuring AIs would have us believe that simply soldering circuits together in the right way, and loading the right programming creates sentient life. This is not one of those novels. Yes, the robots are sentient, but there's a reason for that – lost in history to wars, political upheavals and climate change. Even so, there are still more robots than humans, just not the knowledge of how to make them – and, of course, human ignorance of the robots' true nature as being creatures with feelings, desires, ambitions, moments of happiness and sadness, and frustration from being used and abused by the master race, the humans.Robbie is a robot, owned by a family living in a mining town in Antarctica. The man of the house is rarely at home, as he works as a supervisor at the mines. The lady spends most of her time in the study doing her own thing – adult things. Robbie's role in the house is house cleaner, and nanny to Timmy (age 5), and Clarisse (age 3). He enjoys cleaning, and he loves the kids, but he doesn't get along well with the smart house, the toaster, the bread maker and other sentient household appliances. He doesn't remember ever being anywhere else.After accidentally breaking Timmy's arm, they send him to the Civic Centre for weekly therapy sessions. In middle of his first session, while his therapists are arguing over something, he gets a message that only robots can hear. It's another robot named Omo, who invites him to meet in the alley behind the Civic Centre. There, he meets Omo and Dex, and later, many more. I imagine Omo as a hippy type – he says, “dude” in every sentence, and has long white hair – and Dex as Mr. T (B. A. Baracus). He finds out from them that Robots are entitled to one day off a week. So once a week, he begins to discover the secret life of his fellow robots. He and Omo become soul mates.He also discovers that he used to be someone else, important to the worldwide robot community, but his brain had been wiped and he was turned into a domestic robot. His name used to be Carlos. The more he learns about Carlos, the more he realises his own purpose in life, one not dictated by the humans – or the “monkeys”, as Dex likes to call them.He calls them “monkeys”, because of their obsession for power over each other and maintaining their hierarchy, like orang-utans in the wild. In this case, it's the fact that the top one percent won the culture war long, long ago, by allowing the weaker communities to lose their battle with the elements. That's why the human population is only a fraction of what it was. Humans are divided into three categories: the elite (what we would call the “1%”), the coordinator class, and the workers (includes the robots).D. Millar tells this story, interspersing new discoveries, crises, dramatic rescues and brilliant manoeuvres; with scenes where the robots and their sympathetic human friends simply have fun and engage in relationships. In dreary Antarctica, he's painted a whole world, peopled with every sort. The small mining town seems like the world, until we shift to the capital city.At 591 pages, it's not a fast paced action novel, rather, a leisurely narrative that takes the reader to the final destination via the scenic route. It's definitely cross genre: science fiction, dystopian, romance (not quite erotic), LGBT – Robbie and Omo are boyfriends from the start.To be honest, I didn't find the latter aspect to my taste. That's not to do with the skill of the writer, nor the plot; more to do with the preferences of the reader (myself being the more traditional sort). Other readers might also prefer a shorter, faster-paced action, and dispense with a lot of the chit-chat, but that's the sort of book it is (maybe it's also a cross genre literary fiction). I did enjoy it over all.I loved Robbie as a character, I thought Omo was really a cool “dude”, enjoyed Dex's company, loved Rex, the techie robot dog, and even Noah as he/she ended up becoming. I was intrigued by the big birds, one of the many surreal twists in the narrative.I'm giving it four stars.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Robot civilization in a future world By Filo A really expansive, sweeping epic tale about robot civilization in a future world in which humans appear to be outnumbered. Robbie, a household ‘bot, accidentally breaks the arm of one of the two kids he looks after, and rather than having his brain wiped, his owners send him to therapy sessions. This first trip outside the home – or, anyway, the first he can remember – leads to an awakening of sorts, and also the first step on a ribald, political and picaresque adventure, a sort of combination of a gay robot version of On the Road, a gay robot version of Motorcycle Diaries and a gay robot version of Y Tu Mama Tambien. He meets a boyfriend – a laundry bot – visits an amusement park on the top of a mountain, gets into a riot of sorts between humans and robots, gets arrested, joins an underground robot movement, travels through his native Toytown (both above ground and through vast underground tunnels) and the capital, McMurdo City (McMurdo City!) and learns more about his “life” than he’d ever expected. (If a robot is “wiped” and replaced with a new identity, is he still the same bot? And would those who loved him before he was wiped still love him?) What would a bot revolution be like?; will a bot ever be president? As he continues his journey out of the suburban home in which, as far as he knows, he has lived his entire existence, he smokes a lot of dope and learns more about the history of his strange world, and so do we. Among the most intriguing is the history of space travel and terraforming, which has had disastrous consequences on Mars, a catastrophe blamed on robots, and which Robbie comes to suspect is not what has been reported.The title suggests a wacky comedy, and the cover implies a YA novel, but the author is after something deeper and more moving. There are so many details in this book that are both amusing and evocative, and it is such a carefully thought out piece of world-building, from the description of avatars (humans passing as robot), robot porn (he notes that, while in real life, human men chase after bot girls, in robot porn its robot men chasing after human girls), humans who hate robots and humans who want to be robots (as in any liberation movement), the intricate politics of inter-machine relationships (there is so much going on below the surface – between our houses, our toasters, our satellites [“union members” who sometimes help robots escape], and on their secret communication lines – that we “monkeys” don’t even suspect), and sometimes a really wondrous piece of imagery. On the other hand, the book is too long, sometimes repetitiously introspective, occasionally clunky, both in narrative and dialogue, and even badly punctuated (filled with run-on sentences that might be imagined as stylistic but seem instead to be comma-splices that a good editor could have helped with), suggesting that this is one or two drafts away from a final published work.“Omo,” Robbie asks. “Do you think that one day we could have a day off without anything bad happening, or finding out anything horrible? Like a day when we sit on the rocks by the ocean and watch whales?” Bots are not so different from monkeys after all.Five stars for world-building, concept and plotting; 3.2 stars for execution, averaging out to 4.
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