Eating Robots & other stories by Stphen Oram

Eating Robots and other stories by Stephen Oram

Review by: Fatima Ahmed Alsuwaidi

3.5 stars

In a futuristic world where science and technology and humans are entwined beyond separation. The future is dark and mentally disturbing I have to admit some endings made me get out of my seat and shut the laptop so I can fully digest what happened.

Stephen Oram gives us thirty short stories about living algorithms, robots, non-eating humans and artificial parts. Some funny, some incredibly dark and some with really,,,,, really twisted endings.

It was such a page turner, I knew that when I read the second story "Little Modern Miracles" about small antibiotics pills that cures everything but it's only available for the rich and powerful. also "The Thrown Away Things" with its concept of revenge that all the things were feeling because they were thrown away by no more needing humans

"She was not going to simply give up and switch off like a good little doll. No way. She had rights. Well, she didn't, but she should"

and both stories had satisfying and oddly justified endings.

"The Mythical Moss" is an entertaining story about moving moss chasing down a rabbit but with a hidden purpose.

"Jodie Had Been Deleted" this one was more modern than futuristic, I take it as a simplistic story about our existence in the digital world.

"Real Meat" Vegetarian Humans are lingering for real meat. That one scared the hell out me.

"Loans For Limbs" gave us the purest picture about greedy companies and how far what they go to gain money.

"but it hadn't been long before he'd fallen behind with the payments"

You see this book had been very entertaining, Stephen Oram had successfully made me starving for short stories books, with the different themes of each story, getting as much information as needed in each story no matter how short, and if you don't like one it will soon end overall the book had been interesting, I so want to give this book a four star rating but…….. stories like "Make Me As You See Me" and especially "Trauma Games" had really let the book down the last made me feel a little sick and I think the subject was handled poorly and he could have had more sympathy and even respect for the main character, I just didn't like, didn't agree to it

but I am looking forward to Vol. 2 of Nudge The Future

I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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