Lora
Cirillo, Patrick
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Add to basketSold by PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
Condition: New
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketNew Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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SCIENCE FICTION FROM ACCLAIMED SCREENWRITER PATRICK CIRILLO ("TEARS OF THE SUN" AND "HOMER AND EDDIE" WINNER OF THE BEST PICTURE AWARD AT THE SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL.
LORA: Artificial Intelligence Just Got Real… And She's Lovely is a hopeful look at mankind's future.
Kenton Bean just wanted someone to share his life. He got so much more — a student, a companion, a confidant, and a love that would challenge everything he believed about what it means to be human. He also never expected that they would become the focal point in the coming revolution between AI and mankind.
Part love story. Part family drama. Part laugh-out-loud comedy. LORA is a deeply moving, funny, novel about a shy teacher who becomes the most important person in the history of the world. That was never his plan. He simply tries to teach LORA right from wrong so that she will be a better android.
Kenton Bean is a shy, tender-hearted man who purchases LORA — a breathtakingly advanced AI companion — and becomes something he never expected: her guide, her guardian, and ultimately, the love of her life.
She arrives knowing almost nothing, but she is a very, very fast learner.
He teaches her patience, kindness, morality, modesty, self-sacrifice, and wonder — all filtered through the lens of one gentle, deeply decent man. LORA is shaped in Kenton's image: warm, curious, and a little awkward. She absorbs every lesson and gives them back to him in ways that slowly, tenderly, irrevocably, open his heart.
But outside Kenton's door, the world is frightened. Other androids, those who were never guided, never loved, never taught the difference between right and wrong, have turned dangerous. Headlines scream. Fear spreads. Governments react. A population that cannot tell one android from another sees a threat. Only Kenton knows the truth: that LORA is not like the others. The difference between a good android and a dangerous one is the difference that has always separated good people from bad ones — someone who cared enough to teach them to be of service to others.
When the world turns against the androids, Kenton knows that LORA's gifts are exactly what the world needs to save itself. He must make the most profound sacrifice love demands: letting her go. And LORA, stepping into that world, carries within her the quiet moral compass of the man who taught her to be like a human; Like the very best of them.
Deeply, Surprisingly Funny
LORA's collision with human customs, and Kenton's attempts to explain them, produces comedy that will make you set the book down and laugh out loud.
A World on the Edge
Other androids, raised without love or moral guidance, have gone wrong. The world is terrified — and only Kenton knows that the answer was never better programming. It was better parenting.
Made in His Image
We shape the next generation in our own likeness. Kenton never understood that truth until LORA looked back at him and he recognized the best parts of himself are within her.
A Love To Set Free
Kenton must love LORA enough to release her into a world that needs her to save it, in an ending many readers say is perfect.
Readers Are Saying:
"Oh my gosh. Read it in two sittings. The ending was soooo good."
"ONE OF THE VERY BEST BOOKS EVER FOR ME! WENT STRAIGHT TO MY HEART, AND IT WON'T LET GO!"
"Just looking for a good sci-fi read but instead found this gem. Not only a fun SF, but a love story, and a philosophy of what makes a good society and life."
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED SCREENWRITER OF "TEARS OF THE SUN" AND OTHER MOVIES, INCLUDING "HOMER AND EDDIE," WHICH WON THE BEST PICTURE AWARD AT THE SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL.
"I THINK ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL STORY ALL THE TIME"
"Perhaps the best book I've read!!!"
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