back to article Sex, androids and violence in Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

It all sounds like a beautiful love story. A man in forbidden love with an android robot sets out on a quest to find and reassemble her after she’s kidnapped and stripped down for parts. But Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a gruesome, grotesque noir story of a dismal future, where half of the world is considered …

  1. Neoc

    ...basic premise sounds like "Cherry 6000"...

    1. P. Lee
      Terminator

      > ...basic premise sounds like "Cherry 6000"...

      or Cherry 2000?

      I thought Cherry 6000 might have been a sequel, but all google gave was keyboards.

      Icon: that's what she looks like underneath.

      1. Neoc

        Re: > ...basic premise sounds like "Cherry 6000"...

        D'OH!

  2. foxyshadis

    Nice, sounds vaguely similar (especially the violence) to Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan's futuristic hardboiled debut novel.

  3. Turtle

    Same Old Same Old.

    "But Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a gruesome, grotesque noir story of a dismal future, where half of the world is considered disposable by the other half."

    So pretty much the same as today. That *is* pretty dismal.

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