Author: Damien Broderick
Format: PB
Pages: 338
Genre: Science Fiction
Pubisher: Avon, 1997
ISBN-13: 978-0380785599
Series: Stand Alone
Favorite Quote: "Honor is the duty one owes to oneself," the ai tells him. "It is not on lien to those who chanced to bear you or to some arbitrary system of mad bigotry you just happened to grow up among."
Synopsis (PBS): THOUSANDS OF YEARS FROM NOW THE HUMAN ANIMAL IS STILL A BEAST.
Now there are two sentient races inhabiting the known universe: one as human as Adam. . .the other of robotic mind.They share the Earth in harmonious coexistence. But elsewhere, only those who age and war and die are permitted.On earth, a young human prince has befriended a being far different from himself. But usurpation and fratricide are calling them both to the royal youths embattled home planet--drawing them into a nest of treacherous family conspiracy and cruel, naked ambition where the enemy owns the armies, the power, and the very soul of the world. But the prince will have his revenge, though only ally stands at his side: a peace-loving creature of augmented intelligence in a place where he is am unwelcome stranger--a barbarous world where he is forbidden. . .and feared.
Review: Much of this book is good. Some of it isn't. There were a couple of portions I skimmed because they were so completely confusing and really unrelated to the main story.
But, the main story was good. A human, raised out on an asteroid, comes back to Earth and is befriended by one of the intelligent robots that are now part of our society. They return to the asteroid and change the lives of those backward people, and perhaps all of humanity, forever.
It wasn't one of my favorite Science Fiction novels ever, but I'm still glad I read it.
Rating: 5.5 / 10
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