When S.I.L.V.E.R's creators introduce a recall, pulling all of the robots in his model type back to the factory following complaints, Jane and S.I.L.V.E.R hit the road in a bid to escape but their love is doomed from the start and what we are left with is a tragic Romeo And Juliet story for a twenty-first century cyberpunk generation!
This is a real classic piece of sci-fi that is forgotten or ignored ninety-nine times out of ten by people who have failed to hear of it or have perhaps been put off by Tanith Lee's other work which never quite matched the dizzy heights that this book achieves. Certainly it is amongst my favourite novels of all time and still brings a tear to the eye every time I read it. Think Bladerunner but without the guns and blasting and maybe you will get close; this is a book that asks very important questions about what it is to be human and begs the age old riddle: just what exactly constitutes a soul and could it be recreated in an artifical enviroment?
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