Automaton, by Amanda Clemmer
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Last Thursday I awoke to learn that I died almost a month ago. I was rebuilt from a highly experimental process of clockwork and cloning, and I don’t know why. One man knows my secret—my creator, the lead of the Leona Scientific Laboratory. He says knowledge isn’t free. I say that unless I know why I’m here, he’s the one who’s going to pay. My friend Jack Beasley has offered his help. He has inside knowledge about the laboratory and the man who runs it. I think he also knows something about me that he isn’t sharing. There’s no one I can trust now. Not even myself.
Automaton, by Amanda Clemmer- Amazon Sales Rank: #6489411 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .31" w x 5.50" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 124 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. `You're dead, Ada. You're not real.' By Grady Harp Maine author Amanda Clemmer gained her degree in English Literature and Writing from University of Northwestern in Saint Paul, MN and trained for her novel debut as a freelance writer and as managing editor at Comic Booked: she has had shorter works published the literary journal Snow Monkey and JukePop Serials. Having traveled around the world as a missionary kid she has observed many cultures, myths, and experiences and somehow has sewn this background together to create imaginary universes and has a passion for fantasy and science fiction. Her first book was MOSTLY HUMAN and now she presents her second novel, AUTOMATON. She is also a musician, the violin being her instrument.Amanda has that gift of pulling the reader into her fantasy by offering a few pungent paragraphs a novel's opening: `I'm awake, but my eyes are closed. Around me are the familiar curves of the couch in the library basement. The sanitized odor of scientific equipment reaches my nose more pungent than I remember. I am stiff, locked into position. After measuring a few breaths, I open my eyes to the sight of my friend Jack Beasley's secret laboratory. This room has been my second home for years, ever since I first met the aspiring scientist when I was a schoolgirl at the Los Angeles Academy for Young Women. Jack is here too. In my face. He's leaning over me and gawking through his multi-layered scientific glasses as if expecting me to sprout horns.' And then as Jack proceeds, `"Don't go," he says. "You can't go." He wants to tell me something. "Why not?" I ask. I'm starting to hope he can give me a good enough reason. When I pause, my limbs lock in place like cogs from an old clock. Jack removes his glasses, and for the first time I recognize the concern in his eyes. "Ada, there's something I need to tell you before you leave this place." "What?" I ask. My stomach is queasy now. I want to return to the couch. I glance around the room and study the equipment on the work desk. "Were you experimenting on me?" "You might want to sit down," says Jack...."You are not Ada Stirling," he blurts. I slit my eyes open to steal a glance at him. He's staring at me as he speaks, but doesn't notice my gaze. "Ada Stirling-- well-- she died in a tragic and unforeseen accident a few weeks ago, and I was commissioned to, well, rebuild her," explains Jack. "Using cloning technology and advanced clockwork. Damn. That sounds almost as bad as it is..."You're dead, Ada. You're not real. You're just a series of memories and algorithms programmed into an automaton that is covered with cloned skin and hair. And fingernails," says Jack. "I don't know how else to put it, Ada. You're a walking ghost, and I just created you. Damn, I'm horrible!"To quickly summarize this strange tale, the plot synopsis guides: `Last Thursday I awoke to learn that I died almost a month ago. I was rebuilt from a highly experimental process of clockwork and cloning, and I don't know why. One man knows my secret--my creator, the lead of the Leona Scientific Laboratory. He says knowledge isn't free. I say that unless I know why I'm here, he's the one who's going to pay. My friend Jack Beasley has offered his help. He has inside knowledge about the laboratory and the man who runs it. I think he also knows something about me that he isn't sharing. There's no one I can trust now. Not even myself.'Where and how Amanda takes us from this every solid opening is the pleasure of discovering a new author with a unique voice. This novel/novella is brief but so well conceived and constructed that it seems sure to be the beginning of a new series and a new important career. Grady Harp, May 15
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I never felt connected By Christina @ Books and Prejudice This looked really neat to me. I love science fiction. And the idea of bringing someone back from the dead as basically a robot? Pretty amazing right there.I took some issues with how this novella was executed. When Ada first woke up as an automaton, I felt she accepted that fact far too quickly. Sure there's plenty of proof, but if she is emotionally the same as a human, shouldn't it affect her quite a lot? I mean, if you found out that you're not really human, what would you do? With that, I had a lot of trouble connecting with the main character. With most of the characters really. I liked Ada/Ace's friend Jack the most. But he had a small part. Maybe if this were longer the characters could have developed more.I also want to know how Ada died. Was that plot just dropped? Or was the "it was an accident" really the full explanation? Because Ada/Ace insists she wouldn't trip down the stairs. So how did she really die? Even if it was an accident, what really happened?Note: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Highly recommended By S. Gregory The tale of a young woman who is replaced by a machine after an 'accident.' A well depicted steampunk mystery with some great characters. Highly recommended.
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