After reading the first chapter I closed the book because dystopian children are a very disturbing theme for me. But thought of giving it another try and finished the story this weekend. What made this story unique is, the story set in Sri Lanka and Yudhanjaya’s cultural and political references which made it very familiar, yet dissimilar to the present period. The concept was not new to me, also, I didn’t like the part of child form of robots using for entertainment. Despite those few concerns and some typos, The Inhuman Race was indeed a page turner. Highly recommend this for dystopian sci-fi fans.
“She found herself thinking that the humans she worked with were not all that different from the machine societies they built. Something would topple, something would change, but eventually the whole thing would reset, and it would be as if none of this ever happened.”
“There were four main things that the ancients considered essential to a human being. Beauty, goodness, truth and justice…If you believe buggers who died a few thousand years ago, we’ve got the four main attributes of a human right here. You do realize, if these things are alive, then we’re torturing living things for entertainment?”
“We’re government employees, we do what government employees do,’ he said. ‘ Eat the lunch, drink the tea, pass the ball.”
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