[LM_NET] BOOK: Eager by Fox

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Fox, Helen. Eager. Random House, 2004 [0-385-74672-5]
  This story takes place in a future world where most the people are provided for 
but the technocrats have all the good things, including the best robots.  A new 
model robot, BDC4, comes out which is supposed to think and all the fancy places 
and technocrats get them.  Meanwhile the Bell family (not technocrats) needs a new 
robot and by chance if friends with a famous robot scientist.  He wants them to try 
out his new robot but there is one catch.  This robot has not been programmed in 
the traditional way.  Like a human he has to experience and learn things.  The 
story starts out fun watching the new robot, Eager, trying to learn and understand 
things but soon Gavin Bell (the boy in the family) notices that there is something 
strange about the new BDC4 robots.  Eager starts to realize this too.  This is a 
story in the tradition of Asimov's robot stories.  In these 280 pages the reader 
begins to explore what it means to be alive, to be free, and to have a soul.  It is 
a
 great meaty and serious science fiction story for young adults.


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