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Lädt ... Der automatische Detektiv: Gerostet wird später! (2008)von A. Lee Martinez
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Pretty entertaining book, I thought. It was pretty humorous, written in the old time detective style, but the detective in this case is a robot. Sort of a nerdy Sci Fi old-time detecctive story, I guess. ( ) Empire City - humans, mutants, androids. Weird tech all around. And a cab-driving android has to play detective after his neighbors are abducted. It is a fun romp through a weird city. My first book by A. Lee Martinez was "Gil's All Fright Diner" and I really liked it. So much that I started reading a bunch of his other books. Sadly, it was a bit hit-and-miss: some just weren't as good and full of humor, so I stopped reading everything. Then I stumbled across a used copy of this book and had to get it. I have to rate it somewhere inbetween, it's funny and action-packed, but the jokes do get repetitive and for some it just doesn't make sense that a biologoical would regularly make them. If the main character would have made it into a detective series, I'm not sure if I would read the rest of it. An altogether excellent gumshoe robot crime alien monster dystopian future madness thing. It's even got a bit of strange but touching romance. Fry up a slab of Martha Wells' Murderbot with a dash of Ghostbusters and you'd have something not entirely unlike this book. Many a humorous story has been spoiled for me by excessive silliness but Martinez manages just enough restraint to push all my buttons for all five stars. e.g. "Whatever I didn’t say must’ve struck something in Sanchez’s finely honed cop instincts. He could always read me like a technical manual. His expression didn’t change, and he didn’t say anything. But there was something about the way he didn’t say it." "The Automatic Detective" is a funny, creative, relentlessly entertaining take on the hard-boiled detective story. I liked it even more than I expected to. When this story begins the titular character, Mac, isn't a detective. Mac was designed by a mad scientist to be a killing machine, but he bucked his programming. Now he's a taxi driver trying to keep his nose clean while he's on probation, hoping to be recognized as a fully sentient citizen of Empire City. Mac is a meticulous, dull, self-obsessed loner, but he has managed to accumulate a few friends in spite of himself. When his next-door neighbors go missing Mac is the only one who gives a damn. Forced out of his comfort zone, he finds a new purpose in life. I went into reading this book with no expectations. The summary seemed interesting enough, but had never heard of this book/author. I was pleasantly surprised. The book's humor, while dry, is very clever. There were several "laugh out loud" moments. The book started slow, but because the main character is a robot, it took some time to get used to the nuances. This book is a good combination of science fiction/detective story, but it does get a bit odd during some parts. If there is a sequel to this book, I'd definitely be interested. I found myself really caring about the robot and immersed in parts of the story. The overall story was okay, and there were a few unanswered questions, which I hope will be addressed in a sequel. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Die Idee ist wirklich witzig. Man nehme eine klassische amerikanische Krimivorlage mit hartem, aber erfolgreichem Privatdetektiv, der keine Prügelei scheut, einsteckt, austeilt und natürlich in seinem Herzen ein Guter ist und transportiere ihn ins SF-Milieu. In Empire City landet man dann mit den skurrilen und witzigen Figuren des Autors Martinez. Dort trifft man den Robo Mack, der sein Dasein als Fahrer von extrem langsamen Taxis fristet und auf seine Einbürgerung wartet. Eigentlich als Killer programmiert, mutiert er zum unauffälligen Bürger, bis seine Nachbarskinder, 2 Mutanten, entführt werden. Zusammen mit der Prinzessin von Empire, der menschlichen Roboterkonstrukteurin Lucia Napier macht er sich auf die Suche. Was Lucia und Robo auf ihrer Suche erleben, ist wirklich abenteuerlich und geht dem Robo ganz schön an den Schaltkreis, und wenn er nicht ab und zu bei Freunden seine Akkus aufladen könnte, wäre es schlecht um ihn bestellt. Doch der Hard- und Software-Einsatz lohnt sich, gilt es doch eine Alien-Verschwörung in ganz großem Stil aufzudecken. Beste Science-Fiction . Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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