In the Lives of Puppets
âWhat if I wish for impossible things?
Then you're doing it right. It always seems impossible when you first start.â
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robotsâfatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyâre a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled âHAP,â he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gioâa past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gioâs former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vicâs assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached? Product Info
Publisher: â Tor Books
Date: March 12, 2024
Language: â English
Paperback: â 464 pages
ISBN-13: â 978-1250217431
Full Description
A NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!
New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robotsâfatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. Theyâre a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled âHAP,â he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gioâa past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gioâs former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vicâs assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
Content Warnings
Grief
Genocide
Violence
Death
Death of parent
Murder
Blood
Confinement
Panic attacks/disorders
Injury/Injury detail
Fire/Fire injury
Mental illness
Kidnapping
Dementia
Sexual content
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