We never experience that clunky writing that sometimes appears when an adult writer is trying to remember being a child. The previous research group created four androids, but resigned when all but one died. Megan O’Flannery, an expert in artificial intelligence, accepts the job as lead investigator on a secret, military project. She is a former president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and a member of a think tank of speculative fiction authors who advise the government on. Then the Android goes off the deep end and all havoc ensues.ĥ. The Phoenix Code Part of the Stand Alone Stories. Along for the ride is the brilliant, sexy and seriously eccentric Raj.
The story revolves around and is told from the POV of Megan O'Flannery, a sweet, lonely robotics engineer who is hired to work on an Android. Put a wonderful love story into that, with two brilliant if slightly dented people.Īs usual, Asaro uses the convetions of both science fiction and romance to build something more, something deeper than the sum of both parts Every layer of every character had to be savored and thought about as we, the readers and they, the characters, try to answer what it means to be human? Do we have the right to create a new species - robot? What will that mean to us? To them? Will they have the same morals? Ethics? Needs? I read it in bits in pieces, because I simply didn't want it to end. They've had three failures and the fourth is locking up trying to do something as simple as jumping over a box. MIT Professor Megan O'Flannery is recruited by MindSim to work on a self-aware android. Very few books have affected me the way this one did. The Phoenix Code (2000) 333 pages by Catherine Asaro.
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