Walter Tevis

The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world that people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.

Mockingbird

Walter S. Tevis

A futuristic tale set in a world in which reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on, and machines dominate humans focuses on two individuals who teach themselves how to read and think independently as they become the hope of humankind's salvation. Reprint.

Picked this up at the recommendation of a friend, after telling him about the murder diary series. This book had everything I loved about that one and more, taking place in a dystopia future, narrated by a suicidal robot who can't die and two humans who break free of the system and learn to read. The journies of all three characters are so vastly different and equally interesting. A real page turner. 

Paige Carter 

Nelson Zagalo

Uma das melhores fábulas de ficção-científica que já li. Quando deixamos de ler, o que acontece ao mundo que nos rodeia? Quando deixamos de escrever, o que nos acontece enquanto pessoas? Uma distopia que coloca em cena respostas a estas perguntas, a partir de uma sociedade tecnologicamente evoluída na qual os humanos deixaram as responsabilidades às costas dos robôs. Uma fábula que tem tanto de instigante como de pungente. Quando se questiona o valor da escrita e da leitura, acaba-se por questionar o valor de se estar vivo.

Mockingbird

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