Dave

Thoroughly miserable man does nothing with his life and ruins those of others around him by not fulfilling his.

It's an easy, linear read though so that's in its favour. If anything this is a warning to all of us. Embrace life, enjoy it, and do good things.

Bizarrely, this is the second sex bot novel I've read this year. It's better than the other one, “The Hierarchies”. As is normal, there is no sex in these books.

Annie's developing sentience makes you feel sorry for her predicament - trapped with a controlling narcissist in an apartment with little to no stimulus. The novel feels claustrophobic because of it and the few times outside are euphoric moments when you get to feel alive, just like Annie.

Even with all the advances of technology, I hope we never have these things in our lives. Men are terrible enough anyway...Without actual consequences to their actions, men with sexbots would seriously set back society.

Good, could have been better but I enjoyed it.

This book is about tennis.

If you like tennis, you'll like this book.

I like tennis. I liked the book.

This isn't a book about anything. Nothing happens. There is no adventure and the author forgot to add the content of a story. However, there are endless descriptions of the earth from orbit. Page after page of run-on sentences, no paragraph breaks, and lists of things. Also lots of reflections on what it is to be human, what is humanity, and our role in the cosmos. Tedious stuff but an extra star for being relatively short.