The Holy Machine - Couverture souple

Beckett, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848876564 ISBN 13 : 9781848876569

Editeur : Corvus, 2010

Synopsis

George Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria in the Eastern Mediterranean, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that swept away the nations of the twenty-first century. Yet to George, Illyria's militant rationalism is as close-minded and stifling as the faith-based superstition that dominates the world outside its walls.

For George has fallen in love with Lucy. A prostitute. A robot. She might be a machine, but the semblance of life is perfect. And beneath her good looks and real human skin, her seductive, sultry, sluttish software is simmering on the edge of consciousness. To the city authorities robot sentience is a malfunction, curable by periodically erasing and resetting silicon minds. Simple maintenance, no real problem, its only a machine. But its a problem for George, he knows that Lucy is something more.

His only alternative is to flee Illyria, taking Lucy deep into the religious Outlands where she must pass as human because robots are seen as demonic mockeries of God, burned at the stake, dismembered, crucified. Their odyssey leads through betrayal, war and madness, ending only at the monastery of the Holy Machine...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Beckett is a former social worker and now university lecturer who lives in Cambridge. In 2009 he won the Edge Hill Short Story competition for his collection of stories, The Turing Test.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corvus
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848876564
• ISBN 13: 9781848876569
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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