2021 was a boring year
WONDER IS A blasting cap. It is an emotion that goes off with a bang, shattering settled beliefs, rattling the architecture of the mind, and clearing space for new ideas, new possibilities. Wonder is often thought of as a peaceful emotion, a sense of resounding inner quiet. Of course we would associate it with silence. The world always assumes an eerie hush after an explosion.
Awe is TNT for the soul.
If you’re looking for your next techie/sci-fi YA book fix, you’ve found your ideal match. In short, The Six is about a group of terminally ill teenagers whose lives are “saved” when their minds are downloaded to combat-ready U.S. Army robots. The seventeen-year-old hero, Adam Armstrong, becomes the first human-machine hybrid — a hulking robot called aContinue reading “The SIX – Mark Alpert”
I’ve read I’m starved for you nearly three years ago and I managed to find another book from the Positron Series a month back. It was such a hassle to read and I could not place my finger on why. I kept on picking up the book and then putting it back down. The characters didContinue reading “Margaret Atwood – The Heart Goes Last or the story of the robot Elvis sex toy and the sex chicken”
I am in absolute awe what this show has accomplished. Each episode (varying from 8 to 18min in length) is a piece of art with a lovely story and a twist that leaves you hanging. The humour is crude, the penises are on display and the jokes keep rolling. From existential meditation of humankind asContinue reading “Love, Death and Robots and how it took the Internet by storm. Digital Storm!”
I really loved Sleeping Giants and Walking Gods from the Themis Files trilogy by Sylvain Neuvel. Sylvain Neuvel was asked during an interview where his ideas of mecha robots came from and he mentioned it originated from a series of questions his son started asking when he was offered a robot as a toy. What kind ofContinue reading “Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel”
Every single person on Earth—well, 99.95 percent of them—has alien genetics.
If you fall in love with someone, there’s a good chance the person won’t love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it’s pretty much a given they’re also not your biggest fan. Well, I fell in love with this book. It started off slow but then it grabbed me inContinue reading “Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel”
I can bet any amount that you’ve seen the Will Smith Movie I, Robot. That was the single reason I did not pick up this book earlier – simply because I mistakenly thought that the movie would be like Harry Potter, a scene-for scene rendering of a classic. I was very much mistaken as theContinue reading “I, Robot * Isaac Asimov (1950)”
I went last night to see “Chappie” – a story about a robot that receives a conscience and then develops into a full-fledged person. This is me grossly over-summarizing it.
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