Written by: John Gregory Hancock
Narrated by: James Foster
Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:05-02-14
Publisher: John Gregory Hancock
My Review
This was a very different kind of read with a very scary future to look forward to that I hope never comes to pass. It’s a short to the point story with good characters that most can relate to. With the future turning more and more to computers makes this a believable story. Most have lost their jobs with more doing so each and every day. The human try to find away to fight back before they are killed or starve to death.
Mr. Foster does a great job on narration even the robots narration was very good. You always know who is talking. His narration is a little flat but for this story I feel it needs to be to make it more believable. His women voice are just as good as his males. He has a very pleasant voice that is easy to listen to. There were no background noises or any breaks take that I could tell. No places where the volume was higher or lower. His character voices were very pleasant. He tells the story so well you can almost picture things as they happen. He really gives life to this audio that I feel might be a little flat if reading it. I look forward to listening to more of his work.
There isn’t a lot that can be told of this story without giving it away. The author does put a few twists in that you won’t see coming. It is well written for a short story never leaving things out. He does skip ahead a few years but you know just what happen before with no guessing. I enjoyed and liked the characters each having their own part to the falling of the human and robots. I think most will enjoy this.
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Summary
Peter Harkness is a brilliant prototype engineer, and one of the few humans lucky enough to score a job, at a company that designs automatons.
The irony is not lost on him.
Corporations are manufacturing countless automatons to replace human workers, and not just in menial jobs.
His first day of work is spent gingerly avoiding the numerous protest zones of the jobless that appear along his route. He hunches his shoulders and pulls his head down as he passes by. He understands their anger, but he has no choice. He must eat. It’s a devil’s bargain.
He makes uneasy allies where he least expects, and finds enemies that were waiting for him all along.
Peter must determine how, or if, he will deal with the madness around him. Merely crunching numbers won’t be enough.
A near-future dystopian world, reminiscent of Asimov, Heinlein and the golden age of science fiction.
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