A young boy in a strange colony gets a personal robot as a pet, goes outside, gets captured, and has to rescue himself and his mother from giant killer insects. On the positive side, he uses logic to solve his problems. On the genitive side, his problems don't make any sense.
- He is the...
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A young boy in a strange colony gets a personal robot as a pet, goes outside, gets captured, and has to rescue himself and his mother from giant killer insects. On the positive side, he uses logic to solve his problems. On the genitive side, his problems don't make any sense.
- He is the only child in the colony? This seems badly planned. How long is this going to go on? How far away is this colony from earth? Is he going to end up the only survivor of an aged population?
- There are no insects on the planet? WHAT THE ACTUAL -- okay, lets be clear, You can't have plants without insects . Insects pollinate, propagate, and distribute plant life. Without insects plants don't grow. Insects are, by mass as well as number, the most populous beings on our planet. If you are going to remove the most important component of any vital ecosystem you need to explain why. So there are insects, but they are giant? Okay... But there still needs to be insects that can take care of the smaller plants.
--The plants only react to biological things that attack them? Since when? This is a largely mechanical physical response-- it should work on living and non-living things. One sin off, though, for the kid's deductive ability.
-- The plants are scared of blades? Okay... Animals do tend to "offload" any unnecessary weight when threatened, but where is this plant's central nervous system to coordinate this reaction? Where does it reason? How could the colonists justify killing thinking creatures?
-- How does this kid not know about the flesh eating trees right outside the compound? Did the colonists not warn him?
--Almost no variety of bee eats any meat, and none hunt. They have no reason to bring creatures into their hive. What would they want to have drugged humans for? Humans aren't part of their ecosystem. The inviolable rule of science fiction and fantasy is that the premise, no matter how ridiculous, must have a core of logic that this book seems to lack
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