Made to Kill: A Novel (L.A. Trilogy), by Adam Christopher
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It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office--young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me just fine--after all, the last place you'd expect to find Hollywood's best hit man is in the plain light of day.
Raymond Electromatic is good at his job, as good as he ever was at being a true Private Investigator, the lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency--except for Ada, office gal and super-computer, the constant voice in Ray's inner ear. Ray might have taken up a new line of work, but money is money, after all, and he was programmed to make a profit. Besides, with his twenty-four-hour memory-tape limits, he sure can keep a secret.
When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the agency wanting to hire Ray to find a missing movie star, he's inclined to tell her to take a hike. But she had the cold hard cash, a demand for total anonymity, and tendency to vanish on her own.
Plunged into a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy, Ray uncovers a sinister plot that goes much deeper than the silver screen--and this robot is at the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Made to Kill is the thrilling new speculative noir from novelist and comic writer Adam Christopher.
Made to Kill: A Novel (L.A. Trilogy), by Adam Christopher - Amazon Sales Rank: #116129 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x .92" w x 5.72" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
Made to Kill: A Novel (L.A. Trilogy), by Adam Christopher Review
"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'"-- John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling novelist
"Made to Kill is yet more proof that we should all be thankful for Adam Christopher and his imagination. This tale of robot noir is unlike anything I’ve ever read ― Adam’s is a weird and wonderful voice and we are lucky to have it."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath "Adam Christopher has brilliantly deduced what should have been obvious all along: Classic noir and robots are a perfect match. Part Chandler, part Asimov, and part Philip K. Dick, Made to Kill is a rip-roaring cocktail of smart, sharp, twisty, cyber-pulp awesomeness."-- Adam Sternbaugh, author of Shovel Ready "Made to Kill is just the sort of exciting genre collision that marks out Adam Christopher as one of the hottest new young SF writers."-- Paul Cornell, author of The Severed Streets "A smart, rollicking noir/SF mashup. One of the best books I've read all year."-- Kelly Braffet, author of Save Yourself
About the Author ADAM CHRISTOPHER is a novelist and comic writer. In 2010, as an editor, Christopher won a Sir Julius Vogel award, New Zealand's highest science fiction honor. His debut novel, Empire State, was SciFiNow's Book of the Year and a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2012. In 2013, he was nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel award for Best New Talent, with Empire State shortlisted for Best Novel. His other novels include The Age Atomic and The Burning Dark.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Do androids dream of electric detectives? By Maine Colonial In this alternative version of 1965 Los Angeles, the great experiment of doing menial jobs with "machine men" is over. Raymond Electromatic, a whole new model of machine man, rolled off the line just when the government shut down the experiment and all its products. Now Raymond is the world's last--and only--robot.Raymond and his computer partner, Ada, are the creations of scientist Dr.Thornton, who sets up Ada as the back-office brains and Raymond as the front-office muscle in the Electromatic Detective Agency. Once Thornton has passed on, their prime directive is to make money. Ada has figured out that murder for hire is a lot more lucrative than private detection, so now Ray's real job is hit-robot.But here's the thing. Even though Ray was top of the line for his time, that doesn't mean he and Ada are all that advanced in some ways. When I say Ada is the back-office brains, I mean her hardware takes up nearly all the space in the back office. Ray's hard-wired with lots of fundamental knowledge, but his short-term memory runs on a tape that he has to give back to Ada every night for her to add to her racks of day-memory tapes. He starts each day with a clean tape and no memory of what he did the day before.Ray's memory limitation is no problem for a hit-robot who's supposed to do an in-and-out kill on the occasional evening, but it's a drawback for a private detective. Still, Ray takes on a new case when that classic plot device of hardboiled fiction, the damsel in distress, walks through the agency's frosted-glass door. This dame offers Ray a big bag of gold bars if he'll eliminate Hollywood actor Charles David, no questions asked.Ray's a bit of a movie buff, so he's interested in a case that takes him into Hollywood. What he didn't bargain for is finding a weird sort of cult among the movie world's upper crust. This group seems to be planning something really big; something involving Russians.Adam Christopher's goal here seems to be to write a Raymond Chandler novel with a robot protagonist. (I doubt it's coincidence that the robot protagonist and Chandler have the same first name.) And he does it fairly well. The hardboiled dialog is there, and Ray's deadpan wit makes him a believable mechanical Marlowe.Compared to Chandler, though, this is more lightweight fare, a quick, fun read. And it's best to treat it that way and not think too much about the fact that most of the time there's not a compelling reason in the way the story is presented to have Ray be a robot at all. Or that there are way too many sentences including the words "I frowned on the inside" or where Ray or someone or something "made a sound like" a cement mixer, a beehive, steam engine brakes, a cat pawing at a mouse inside an air vent, two rocks going for a joyride in a clothes washer, a garbage truck grinding its gears, a sewing machine on overdrive, a clutch slipping and at least a couple of dozen other things. I also would have liked to see more development of the alternative world of 1965, other than just a couple of tantalizing glimpses.Still, I had fun reading the story, despite its significant drawbacks. The tone is smart-alecky, I grew fond of Ray and Ada, and the time zipped by as I read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Likable, one-ton, bronzed-steel hero in a hat By Patto The author was inspired to write this book by his hero Raymond Chandler. But don't expect a pure detective story. The protagonist is a detective, but he's also a robot, and the story is more science fiction than anything, even though there's some investigating going on.Raymond the robot does have personality, though. He's cool, observant, big, and tough. Even when he's clueless, he maintains his sense of humor. Ray wears a hat and enjoys nice clothes. He revels in sunshine and heat, which is good, since he works in Hollywood. He doesn't have a conscience, yet he's patriotic. His natural inclination is to resist a hostile takeover of America, which threatens in this book. These traits probably come from his creator, Professor Thornton, Doctor of Philosophy, who made Ray somewhat in his own image. I liked Raymond a lot.I also liked Ada the computer. She does the thinking and planning, Ray does the legwork -- an ideal partnership. I was amused by the sound effects Ada projects over the phone to simulate a chain-smoking, coffee-swilling secretary. Ray and Ada as personable non-people are the best thing about this book.But because I'm not a regular reader of sci-fi, I'm not that comfortable with the conventions of the genre. I would have preferred Ray to take on a straightforward murder case with no international conspiracy or futuristic science involved. Sci-fi fans will be better qualified to appreciate this book.Still, I found Made to Kill a quick read and a lively read. I liked the author's enthusiasm for his characters.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful. A bit of a mess By Silea I didn't much like this book, but i was sufficiently engaged in the core mystery to finish it. That's why it gets more than one star.For starters, the basic premise is flawed. The main character is The Last Robot In The World, which should make him the WORST private investigator/assassin ever, not the best.Second, the writing is an awkward halfway between old fashioned hardboiled noir and standard mystery/thriller. At times it's horribly over-written for the latter, and at times it's horribly streamlined for the former.Third, the book feels compelled, every few pages, to remind us rather bluntly that the PI we're following around is a robot, with robot characteristics and abilities, and also a robot, in case we forgot.And last... well, it just doesn't make sense. At the end you'll get a nice wrap-up, a who/what/where/when/why, but it just doesn't work. We know why the robot PI was hired in the first place but...well, i repeat myself: it doesn't make sense.Granted, this is apparently the first in the 'LA Trilogy', so maybe the heavy foreshadowing laid in this book is for future books and not this one, and perhaps the totally nonsensical explanation for the events in this volume is part of that meta-narrative, but... well... it didn't make sense. And, alas, i'll never know, as i've no plan to read books 2 and 3.
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