Homo Roboticus
by Mayet Ligad Yuhico
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GENRE: Speculative fiction
(sci-fi thriller)
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BLURB:
US
Colony Agent Brice O' Rourke is traumatised as a child when half the world
disappears as waters rose because of climate change and when North Korea
unleashed sentient human like droid soldiers to conquer lands for their hungry
people.
When
the US Congress passed laws allowing the Homo Roboticus Sollus and Aequilavum
programs, Brice gains Ira, a sister, and meets a fellow droid agent Lee Jae
Sung who saves her life during a mission.
As
a new President wins on an anti-robotist, authoritarian stance vowing a
pre-machine existence, will Brice defy her own government and risk her life to
save loved ones from extinction?
“Homo Roboticus is a
richly-imagined cautionary tale of a future earth in which long-feared climate
disaster has actually happened, the world’s population is permanently at war,
and robots have become almost more human than their creators.” --Susan Krawitz,
author of Viva, Rose!, a Sydney Taylor Honor winner, National Jewish Book Award
debut fiction finalist, and Spur Award finalist
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EXCERPT:
The ground shook, but she held on to her hidden perch as the
other children shoved each other as they rushed to the cliff’s edge. And then
one by one, they jumped into the water with nary a hint of fear in their faces.
To them, the sea was their playground.
“Hey Eilish, come here and hide!” she called.
A tiny elfin face looked up at her. She smiled. Eilish’s
clothes had become disheveled, showing the glassinex parts of her anatomy.
“Come on over here. You’ll be seen where you are,” she said.
She pulled Eilish into her hidden, leafy lair and fixed her
clothes, tugging her shirt sleeves over the shiny wrists, and socks up over
knobbed knees.
“Brice, why do I need all these clothes?” Eilish said. “At
home…”
“We’re not at home, Eilish. We’re out here to play.”
Eilish turned to her. “Who are we playing with? We’re always
up in the trees. I want to go home.”
“Hush, Eilish,” she snapped. “Don’t move!”
Eilish sat down and hummed to herself.
Pulling a leaf from
her own hair, she balanced precariously on a branch. Hidden in the sturdy
branches of the mango tree, she intended to stay that way until the last rays
of the sun vanished and the other kids ran back to their homes. Her family had
left Antarctica, the coldest and windiest continent on earth, only six months
before. Palawan, located in the western part of the Philippines, was a balmy
tropical paradise, but it was still shocking for her to leave the house in the
thinnest of garments and flip flops.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Mayet Ligad
Yuhico is the author of FOURTEEN DAYS, a work of romantic contemporary fiction
published in 2011.
Based in
Singapore since 2012, Mayet has shifted to the genre of speculative fiction
in her new
novel, HOMO ROBOTICUS, to ponder on the consequences of global warming and
climate change.
http://mayetligadyuhico.com/
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