Sci-fi

Twisted Metal

by Tony BallantyneBook 1 of 2 in The Robot Wars
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Description

On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but metal to be used or recycled for the cause. Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can’t stand against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan’s destiny is Karel, a Turing robot with elements of Artemis’s philosophy already woven into his mind … as well as Karel’s wife Susan, and their recently created child.. Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north … and towards the truth about the legendary ‘Book of Robots’, a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world …

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatWar-Torn

Details

First published
May 2009
Pages
384
Reading time
About 8 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Language
English
ISBN
9780230738607
Series
The Robot Wars, Book 1

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