![]() ![]() ![]() Kenny is following in Asimov’s footsteps when he opens his novel with the introduction of his world’s four “Laws of Mechanics”. Asimov is credited for introducing the word “robotics” to the English language, and his “Three Laws of Robotics” (introduced in a 1942 short story) began a discussion of robot ethics that has become increasingly important with the growing sophistication of A.I. Pádraig Kenny’s debut novel feels like it could have been concocted by the classic robot-aficionado, Isaac Asimov, which is no meagre comparison. The scene is a swift gut punch, one that foreshadows the simmering emotion that runs through the story. However, the vulnerable father comes to his senses when Absalom takes the sales pitch too far, and Jack is instead hurtled across the home’s snowy front lawn. Absalom is taking advantage of this individual, a man who is grieving the loss of a child. ![]() They come to a house that is opened by a dazed-looking man, Mr Chapman. Absalom swaps Jack’s red hair for brown, ‘because nobody buys gingers, awful sickly-looking things.’, and tells Jack to stick to the routine. Padraig Kenny’s children’s novel, Tin, opens with an engineer, Mr Absalom, crunching through snow with a human boy, Christopher, and a robot child for sale, Jack. ![]()
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