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I'd read an earlier edition of this story quite a while ago. It's fun to see how much this story has improved.
The ideas about artificial intelligence are interesting and thought provoking while wrapped up in a adventure romance. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue between Megan, a AI programmer, and Ander, the android robot. This story has a few flaws which may not be flaws. The character development tends to be a bit sentimental as is characteristic of Romance. By this I mean it has a lot of emphasis on emotions left over from difficult childhoods and it also has some cliches of romance such as the rich handsome hero with a solid chest. It also has some cliches typical of Asaro's writing such as comparisons of the hero to a predatory wild animal and the declaration that he is "decent," meaning ethical. The e-edition has a number of typos with missing letters or words. I believe these were probably introduced during formatting. They can be easily ignored.


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The Phoenix Code Catherine Asaro 9780553581546 Books Reviews

Not the best in this genre I've read - but pretty good notwithstanding!
The romance of the story didn't bother me. I was more interested in the mystery of the story. Asaro keeps the ending a mystery almost to the very end. Once she reveals the 'who dun'it' the plot barrels along with almost no sense. Characters acting with seemingly one motivation suddenly reverse course. Minor characters become major factors etc. Overall a book that I wouldn't read again, but makes a good book to pass the time on say a long plane flight.
Started out OK, but got a bit tedious. The constant barrage of technospeak made it sound like a bad Star Trek novel. A bit predictable as well. Especially the big reveal.
Catherine Asaro continues to give us another excellent Science Ficton novel with a good romantic plot. The novel tells the story of a young scientist, Megan O'Flannery who is offered the chance to develop a self-aware android, Aris. A shy robitics genius, Raj Sundaram, aids her after Aris becomes unstable.
The tempo of the book keeps you riveted. I stayed up til 200 AM to finish it. An excellent protrayal of an autistic character adds to the realism.
I highly recommend the book to anyone enjoys Science Fiction, Robotics, and Romance. Warning You will not be able to put down the book until the last page is read.
I found "The Phoenix Code" to be a bit repetitive and heavy handed throughout most of the middle of the book, but the beginning was skillful enough to capture my interest, and the ending was exciting, well done and sufficiently rewarding that I can recommend this book.
The characterization was very well done, with Megan, Ander and Raj quite fleshed out (an android pun?) and believable. The plot was not very complex, but I found it intriguing and worthwhile.
All in all, not an important read, but a good one.
This is a fast-paced and intriguing novel covering the creation of androids and their search for an answer to the question of whether they are (or want to be) human. The central character, Megan, is a computer scientist who specializes in robots. When she gives up her university job to take over a corporate lab dedicated to creating the first android who can surpass the Turing test, she is thrilled. But then she discovers that not everything is as it seems (and that not everyone is who they seem to be). Besides being a fine novel, this book also covers some interesting philosophic ground what does it mean to be human? Is being human the highest goal?
This is a fine read. Give it a shot!
Very few books have affected me the way this one did. I read it in bits in pieces, because I simply didn't want it to end. Every layer of every character had to be savored and thought about as we, the readers and they, the characters, try to answer what it means to be human? Do we have the right to create a new species - robot? What will that mean to us? To them? Will they have the same morals? Ethics? Needs?

Put a wonderful love story into that, with two brilliant if slightly dented people.

As usual, Asaro uses the convetions of both science fiction and romance to build something more, something deeper than the sum of both parts

The story revolves around and is told from the POV of Megan O'Flannery, a sweet, lonely robotics engineer who is hired to work on an Android. Along for the ride is the brilliant, sexy and seriously eccentric Raj. Then the Android goes off the deep end and all havoc ensues.

Pros

1. Rich language

2. Layered characters

3. Deep questions

4. Wonderful love story

5. Ander - he is wonderfully developed. We never experience that clunky writing that sometimes appears when an adult writer is trying to remember being a child.

Cons

1. Too damned short!
I'd read an earlier edition of this story quite a while ago. It's fun to see how much this story has improved.
The ideas about artificial intelligence are interesting and thought provoking while wrapped up in a adventure romance. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue between Megan, a AI programmer, and Ander, the android robot. This story has a few flaws which may not be flaws. The character development tends to be a bit sentimental as is characteristic of Romance. By this I mean it has a lot of emphasis on emotions left over from difficult childhoods and it also has some cliches of romance such as the rich handsome hero with a solid chest. It also has some cliches typical of Asaro's writing such as comparisons of the hero to a predatory wild animal and the declaration that he is "decent," meaning ethical. The e-edition has a number of typos with missing letters or words. I believe these were probably introduced during formatting. They can be easily ignored.