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gengelcox's review
4.0
A classic that mirrors another classic. The story of a created man, this one mechanical rather than flesh and blood, but for all intents and purposes, a similar beginning to that classic work by Mary Shelley. And, like Frankenstein, Binder underscores how misunderstood such a creature would be. It’s a marvel of simplicity and economy, doing in a short story what Shelley took 200 pages to do, but Binder gets away with it because of our familiarity with her work. Even though the science, and possibly even the reaction of people, is outdated, the story still has at its core a deep meaning of what it might mean to have created an artificial intelligence.
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