![]() ![]() To be sure, Lock In’s perspective (first person) is that of the “mechanical” partner rather than the initially skeptical human. Scalzi offers a comparable crime-solving partnership, in a society where very similar prejudice is to be found, to explore interests of his own, including but by no means limited to mind-machine intersections, virtual realities, and the tricky relations between politics and technological development. ![]() Isaac Asimov’s novel uses a police-detective thriller structure, partnering a human and a robot to explore sf topics, chiefly the future city, artificial intelligence, and prejudice against the technological Other. It reminded me a good deal of The Caves of Steel, not only in the deadpan flatness of its style but also in its plot setup. ![]() Part of the pleasure I got from the book is its unmocking assimilation of Golden Age traditions. ![]()
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