![]() ![]() 9-13)Ī magnificently creepy fantasy pits a bright, bored little girl against a soul-eating horror that inhabits the reality right next door.Ĭoraline’s parents are loving, but really too busy to play with her, so she amuses herself by exploring her family’s new flat. While Eager’s adventure isn’t thrilling, his discoveries about life, formed through amusing conversations with virtual reality Socrates, are thought-provoking. While contemplating the definition of life, Eager, Gavin, and Fleur discover something frightening about the BDC-4 robots and about LifeCorp in general. Grumps’s replacement is the experimental prototype Eager-a robot who has been programmed to think instead of following orders. Their parents decide to replace the faithful but flaky robot butler Grumps, so maybe Fleur and Gavin won’t be so embarrassed in front of their technocrat friends who have fancy new BDC-4 robots. They don’t have the latest technology reserved for the wealthy technocrats who work for LifeCorp, but at least they don’t live in the city with all those made unemployable by robot labor. ![]() Like all professional families, theirs has a sentient house and a robot butler. ![]() Still, something is wrong in their class-stratified society. ![]() In siblings Fleur and Gavin’s world, where robots do all of the manual labor, there’s no starvation or homelessness. ![]()
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