In The Lives Of Puppets

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tom Doherty
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 420 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyre a family, hidden and safe.The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP, he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gioa past spent hunting humans.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gios former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vics assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attachedInspired by Carlo Collodis The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

ISBN: 9781529088038