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Flint & Steel
In a future New York City, a place of automation, personal flying ships, and where crime is at an all time low, a new wave of technological discovery is ushered in with genius inventor Norris Hadley holding the latest key advancement. He has built robotic humanoid assistants, perfect for any job big or small. But not all technology is ready for public use.When one of Hadley's machines goes missing he calls in Detective Jackson Flint to find it in a city of millions. This robot is different. It looks and acts human. And now, with it on the run, Flint must follow it down a path that leads to family and death.
- GenresScience Fiction
119 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 16, 2014
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July 12, 2014
Flint & Steel (The Spire Report) by Gregory S. Sorin is set a few hundred years in the future in New York City. Jackson Flint is a city investigator ostensibly on vacation when he receives a call from billionaire inventor Norris Hadley with an intriguing proposal. Hadley engages Flint to investigate the disappearance of a robot that he disparately wants returned. Flint protests that he’s on vacation, until Hadley offers him an enormous amount of money to take the case off the books from cases officially assigned by the city. Flint takes the case, but soon finds himself embroiled in mysteries he couldn’t have foreseen.
Jackson Flint sets out to locate a very valuable piece of technology – a robot with human appearance and feelings – for billionaire genius inventor Norris Hadley. Our man, Flint, soon discovers there is much more to this robot named Neal than meets the eye.
In a distant future New York, Anthro-Mechanics invents and markets robots to use as personal assistants. The genius behind the company, Norris Hadley, has invented a highly advanced robot he’s not ready to introduce to the public yet. The problem is, his new creation looks human, has human like feelings, is self-aware, and, it’s escaped and gone missing. Hadley engages vacationing city investigator, Jackson Flint, to locate and return the robot, for a generously enormous fee. Flint takes the case, even though he’s on vacation, and it’s not officially assigned to him by the city. Hadley wants everything kept under wraps. Once Flint locates the robot he discovers that Hadley has a plot to take over the city government. Flint joins forces with his brother, Terry, and Neal The Robot, to thwart Hadley’s plans.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It is well written, clear, and easy to follow. Gregory S. Sorin spins a great yarn about a possible, dystopian future New York that will give the ready pause. If you enjoy dystopian future then Flint & Steel is well worth your time. I give it five starts.
Jackson Flint sets out to locate a very valuable piece of technology – a robot with human appearance and feelings – for billionaire genius inventor Norris Hadley. Our man, Flint, soon discovers there is much more to this robot named Neal than meets the eye.
In a distant future New York, Anthro-Mechanics invents and markets robots to use as personal assistants. The genius behind the company, Norris Hadley, has invented a highly advanced robot he’s not ready to introduce to the public yet. The problem is, his new creation looks human, has human like feelings, is self-aware, and, it’s escaped and gone missing. Hadley engages vacationing city investigator, Jackson Flint, to locate and return the robot, for a generously enormous fee. Flint takes the case, even though he’s on vacation, and it’s not officially assigned to him by the city. Hadley wants everything kept under wraps. Once Flint locates the robot he discovers that Hadley has a plot to take over the city government. Flint joins forces with his brother, Terry, and Neal The Robot, to thwart Hadley’s plans.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It is well written, clear, and easy to follow. Gregory S. Sorin spins a great yarn about a possible, dystopian future New York that will give the ready pause. If you enjoy dystopian future then Flint & Steel is well worth your time. I give it five starts.
July 23, 2014
Very promising series. Nice to see sci-fi when so many other writers are still trying punk this and that. Closest term of Sorin's style would be "sci-fi/pulp". Highly recommended.
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