Lovelock

Creating characters of great depth has always been one of Card's strongest talents. This is especially so as you feel through Lovelock, how it feels to know that you have been programmed, to be a slave, to murder to save yourself, to desire to be like the very humans who have de'humanized' you. I re......more

Most of the people and animals in this novel were annoyingly childish and horrid to each other, so I was continually on the verge of giving up on this read. Then towards the end, I was quite moved by the main character’s increasing awareness of his slave status and his rebellion against it. The main......more

Un mono capuchino mejorado, una nave "generacional", un futuro donde los humanos empiezan de cero... Todo suena bien y utópico, pero Lovelock es una "herramienta" en manos de su dueña y se ha dado cuenta de ello y ha decidido liberare. No es de las mejores novelas de Orson Scott Card pero es de lectu......more

Lovelock, the capuchin monkey genetically engineered to be extremely intelligent, and to desire to serve his master. He was made to witness and digitally record a scientifically brilliant scientists every move to include her personal life. Lovelock is different from other witnesses though, because h......more

At page 250 this was a two star book but I really enjoyed Lovelock's dilemma about what to do with his "daughter" Faith once he found out she wasn't of the same species. It turned Lovelock into a hypocrite and that is what made him more human for me than the fact that he "murdered" an animal. Once a......more