"...there is no need to have rogue machines
turning against humans..."
turning against humans..."
Blazing Reader,
Jordan Henderson has left the first review for All the Humans Are Sleeping.
It is a terribly biased review — as Jordan is the cover artist and receives a royalty on each book sold. So, I'll spare you the praise and jump to his ironic observations:
Manley's dystopia hits closer to the mark than, say, The Matrix, because in Manley's novel, there is no need to have rogue machines turning against humans — humans are perfectly capable of turning the machines against humans/themselves.
That echoes what Dr. Marta Wink says in the epigraph at the beginning of chapter 9.06 of All the Humans Are Sleeping:
“On January 2, 1921, Karel Čapek’s play, Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots), premiered. It predicted a world where robots destroy mankind. Six decades later, when Čapek’s speculations were becoming a possibility, Hollywood profited from the original fears of the Czech playwright. Such films as The Terminator (1984) featured demonic robots on a mission to exterminate the entire human race. Earlier works of written fiction depicted even darker realities. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967), by New Wave speculative fiction writer Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018), told the horrific story of a supercomputer which delighted in physically and psychologically torturing the five survivors of a nuclear holocaust. In reality, no such conflicts between man and machine ever came to pass. Artificial intelligence always remained the servant of its makers.”
Check out the free sample (or buy a dozen as Christmas gifts) of my novel about a farmer, a non-homicidal robot and the end of the world at:
John C.A. Manley
PS You can read the rest of Jordan Herson's review on his Substack where he praises the "brisk" and "immersive" plot.
John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/
