Barricade

256 pages

Published June 1, 2014 by Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-0-575-11794-5
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Imagine if you set an artificial intelligence the task of protecting your country. Imagine if humans are the biggest threat to that country. Barricade shows us a bleak future where no parameters were set to safeguard the protection of the human race. Once Control had finished protecting the borders, it went to war against the very people who made it.

Told from the perspective of one of the artificial life forms, it soon becomes clear that whilst they look like humans, the Ficials aren’t human. They are lacking emotions and empathy, the destruction of one of their kind, does not register as something they should be upset about. They were not built to care. Flashbacks to Kenstibec’s past reveal several scenarios where they just do not react the same way as us, that we shouldn’t expect them to think like us either.

The introduction of Starvie, a female designed as …