Homo Robiticus by Mayet Ligad Yuhico – Spotlight and Giveaway

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US Colony Agent Brice O’ Rourke is traumatised as a child when half the world disappears as waters rose because of climate change and when North Korea unleashed sentient human like droid soldiers to conquer lands for their hungry people.

When the US Congress passed laws allowing the Homo Roboticus Sollus and Aequilavum programs, Brice gains Ira, a sister, and meets a fellow droid agent Lee Jae Sung who saves her life during a mission.

As a new President wins on an anti-robotist, authoritarian stance vowing a pre-machine existence, will Brice defy her own government and risk her life to save loved ones from extinction?

“Homo Roboticus is a richly-imagined cautionary tale of a future earth in which long-feared climate disaster has actually happened, the world’s population is permanently at war, and robots have become almost more human than their creators.” –Susan Krawitz, author of Viva, Rose!, a Sydney Taylor Honor winner, National Jewish Book Award debut fiction finalist, and Spur Award finalist

Read an Excerpt

As the small hand of the clock hit six, Brice turned to the window and saw a wave of metallic spike-droids rise from the ground outside. She counted backwards from ten, and when she reached zero, the spikes bloomed multi-layered metal petals and started turning in different directions. They looked like dancers performing ballet steps, she thought with amusement; one executing a deep plié to measure the temperature of the soil; another, a hundred pirouettes to record the ferocity of the wind. These were once tasks both her father and grandfather were responsible for, but for some time now, no human had been allowed outside the tundra and these droids had done most of the scientific work.

There was a sound behind her – an excited screech, and Brice turned away from the window. Eilish was jumping up and down as she did every day when the spike-droids emerged.

“Be careful, Eilish!” she said. “Come and sit beside me,” and she patted the broad windowsill she was perched upon. Eilish was the same size as she was and looked her exact age, which was six. She was wearing the same pajamas, pink with flowers. She patted down a few stray hairs sticking out on Eilish’s head, then checked her left leg. Made of glassinex, it had broken two weeks before, when she fell from the same windowsill. “If you break another leg, we’re in trouble,” she warned Eilish. “There are no spare parts coming to this side of the world any time soon. Which is a pain in the behind, because that’s what you’ll have to walk on if you break your other leg, so hobble carefully!” And then she laughed. Eilish grinned, and shook her head.

About the Author:

Mayet Ligad Yuhico is the author of FOURTEEN DAYS, a work of romantic contemporary fiction published in 2011.

Based in Singapore since 2012, Mayet has shifted to the genre of speculative fiction in her new novel, HOMO ROBOTICUS, to ponder on the consequences of global warming and climate change.

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Comments

  1. Thank you for inviting me as guest author at longandshortreviews.com. Very happy that many have signed in and joined the Amazon/BN give-away. If any of the readers have any comments or questions, just fire away!

  2. James Robert says

    Thank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read

  3. Thank you for hosting today.

  4. The book sounds very intriguing.

  5. Happy Friday, thanks for sharing the great post – sounds like a good book 🙂

  6. Good luck with the release!

  7. rana durham says

    i love this excerpt

  8. Suzannah Clark says

    Hi, What is speculative fiction? Thanks so much

  9. rana durham says

    what makes someone good writer

  10. Hi Rana, I just attended the International Thriller Writers conference in NYC last July and I was fortunate enough to interview a lot of writers. Everyone says that whether they’ve published one or twenty books, writing doesn’t get easier. Staring at that blank page is such an intimidating experience to all writers.

    There are many qualities that make someone a good writer. One is the capacity to plough on, to write daily in good times and bad. But the most important quality I feel is to be humble and to accept criticism (whether it comes from self-criticism or from one’s editor). As Stephen King wrote in “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft -“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” 🙂

  11. rana durham says

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  12. rana durham says

    which of yur books would you like to see on big screen

  13. rana durham says

    happy wed whats your fave thing to do on hump day

    • Reading makes me get through hump day. I just started reading “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa. Written in 1994, it was just released with a beautiful translation by Stephen Snyder.

  14. rana durham says

    happy thursday thanks for hosting

  15. rana durham says

    happy friday whats your favorite part of a book to write

  16. rana durham says

    happy sunday

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    happy monday

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