- Hardcover
- Publisher: Orbit (Aug 7 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1841496510
- ISBN-13: 978-1841496511
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 23.9 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #630,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Strong characterisation, plot and an understated question about consciousness, Feb 12 2010
By Nigel Kirk - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Night Sessions: A Novel (Hardcover)
I loved the Asimov robot novels, which in so many ways were germane to our thinking on robots. Then for a while some robot stories became a little familiar, even predictable. Not any more, this novel asks challenging questions about consciousness, even `specism'.The crime whodunit plot unfolds in a style a little like Peter Hamilton's Greg Mandel series and reminds me of how differently some Brits (and Scots) write crime. The novel has strong characterisation, plot and exploits its Edinburgh setting well. I'll be reading more of MacLeod.
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Robots with a human face in a post-terror world, Oct 28 2011
By Ivo Dell'ambrogio - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Night Sessions: A Novel (Hardcover)
This is a quite enjoyable detective novel. With robots. Here is the setting: the Faith Wars that had started with 9/11 have ended in a partial nuclear Holocaust, and the world has now turned its back on religion. For a still traumatized humanity, it's a time of environmental and societal mending as well as renewed progress and space exploration, where robots - who had accidentally awakened to consciousness on the battlefield - uneasily mingle with people. When a bomb attack kills a priest in Scotland and apocalyptic fundamentalist leaflets are found in a church, the specter of terrorism is back...Although The Night Sessions is ostensibly a whodunnit (and a gripping one at that), the background social commentary and political speculation are quite interesting and make up most of the fun. But the best part is probably the brilliantly depicted interaction between the human and robotic characters, which sometimes I found quite touching. They are all just people, you know.
Highly recommended.
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