![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Fans of the previous book will probably want to read this one others are likely to be turned off by its slow pace.- Walter Minkel, New York Public LibraryĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 008-012 In a world which has banned self-aware robots, Eager and his brilliant but headstrong nephew, Jonquil, come out of hiding to visit the Bell family, and soon become involved in the mysterious and dangerous events. The stakes are much lower here, and the characters get out of any danger they're in pretty easily. Eagers nephew by Fox, Helen, 1962-Publication date 2006 Topics Robots, Robots, Science fiction, Science fiction. A certain amount of comedy and adventure ensues, but both are restrained and clever in a way that the threat of a grand-scale robot rebellion in the first novel was not. Eager refuses, but Jonquil conceals himself and joins him anyway. ![]() Jonquil begs to go along, as he has never spent any time among humans. Once a year, Eager takes a risk: disguising himself as a domestic-servant robot, he travels to see the Bells, the family he became close to in the first book. They have learned to "reproduce": Allegra has created Jonquil, her "son," who can morph into a variety of shapes and interface with almost any kind of electronic device. Eager, his sister Allegra, and several other robots capable of independence from humans have gone into hiding. Grade 5–8-This sequel to Eager (Random, 2004) takes place 10 years after its predecessor, at the end of the 21st century, when mentally and emotionally independent robots are illegal and subject to destruction. ![]()
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