The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee.
Expectations:
There's going to be a very foppy silver robot man. He will woo a woman with poetry, roses and show her the meaning of true love.
What I Got:
An extremely foppy robot man woos a very vapid 16 year old in the space future with roses and songs. She cries endlessly in wanton misunderstanding of emotion and eventually becomes stronger through learning to love her robot man and breaking away from her controlling mother and rich life. They have magical, Dickens-esque poor times together. Silver, (the aptly-named robot man), is recalled. The girl cries a lot, but with purpose and sorrow. Then the robot's ghost-program talks to her through a ouiji board at her friend's house. She becomes a strong woman of THE FUTURE.
Cover Execution:
8.5/10. All it needed was a weeping, doe eyed woman child on the cover and it would be a near-perfect image of the book. They even got his velvety-long red hair just right!
Onward to "Heads" by Mr. Bear. Which, on the first chapter, promises me not just a few... but over FOUR HUNDRED frozen space heads.
I love the word "foppy"!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, his pouty red robot mouth.