The Silver Metal Lover, Tanith Lee
The Silver Metal Lover, Tanith Lee
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The Silver Metal Lover

Author: Tanith Lee

Narrator: Gabrielle Baker

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/12/2019

Synopsis

Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood . . .

For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion.

Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So, she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see—not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?

About Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was a legend in science fiction and fantasy writing. She wrote more than ninety novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, a British Fantasy Society Derleth Award, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather ~*dread mushrooms*~ on July 09, 2016

Buddy read with Karly AND J-Rex sometime in 2016 I think? I found this DAW edition with a bad/awesome cover at a used bookstore today. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] I still like the Kinuko Craft cover best (even though Karly hates it). This was the cover I had the first time I read the book. Honestly I probably love it because......more

Goodreads review by L.S. on March 01, 2022

The second book by Tanith Lee I read within a couple days. I listened to this on a long drive. It was enjoyable all the way through. Similar to Heinlein's Rolling Stones, or Have Spacesuit-Will Travel in the sense that they were all pulp science fiction reminiscent of the Golden Age of the genre, li......more

Goodreads review by Simply Sam on July 28, 2016

My love, my love. I will see you again. I happened to be off work today and this BR read started today so.....yeah I finished it today. I'm not very good at being alive. Now, I must admit, initially I wasn't sure about this story. Our protagonist, Jane, just seemed too vapid and inane to care about. S......more

Goodreads review by Branwen Sedai *of the Brown Ajah* on January 03, 2012

This book is so beautiful and heartbreaking. I've never read anything like it. It chronicles the life of Jane, a vapid rich girl who lives in the future and doesn't really know what it is to feel anything, or how to experiance life. All that changes when she meets and falls in love with Silver, a ro......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on September 28, 2018

I'm tempted to say that this is one of Lee's deepest books. Why? It seems just another YA tale of a teen angst-driven by first love, rebellion, and the adolescent desire to establish an identity. But 'coming of age' is a crapulous label for story-telling. We are all coming of age, all our lives. And......more

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