The Fourth Law
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- Category: Fiction » Science fiction » General
- Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Sci-Fi & fantasy
- Published: July 16, 2017
- Words: 55,530
- Language: American English
- ISBN: 9781370578887
Former design engineer, sometime pharmacy technician, father & husband, now aspiring indie writer.
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Reviews
Unique blend of Catholicism and science fiction. Story grasped my interest. Intriguing concept of machine civilisation.
Book expands on the well known (at least among readers familiar with the science fiction genre) Asimnov's 3 laws of robotics: by adding a fourth law. This new law is a compulsion not a command and the robots are able to disregard the 1st 3 laws.
A dystopian setting in the US as the implication in this novel is that life continued as normal in the rest of the world whilst the "Break up" occurred in the US.
A major unanswered question: why did Mr. Barrett commit the atrocities?
An English translation / glossary should have been provided for the Japanese words and phrases used in the book.