The Loneliest Robot Andrew Glennon Matt Dixon Books
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"A new and brilliant modern-day fable for Children and Teens - full of wonderful life lessons – especially for those consumed by technology and social media."
An incredible robot develops real emotions. A lonely boy becomes robotic. Both lost in life, they learn what it really means to feel Human. At last, a moving tale of self-discovery for the fast-moving modern age that reminds us all to feel HUMAN!
A lonely boy discovers an incredible Robot in his garden shed. A silent and highly gifted girl chooses to be alone in her attic bedroom. The richest man in the world mysteriously disappears...It all waits to be discovered in THE LONELIEST ROBOT, the inspirational new novel for the modern age featuring beautiful illustrations from acclaimed robot artist, Matt Dixon.
An imaginative and moving new book for middle grade and teens (9-15) and anyone with a human heart. A thought-provoking dark comedy - this uplifting tale is told with warmth and humour, making it highly digestible for young and curious minds.
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The Loneliest Robot Andrew Glennon Matt Dixon Books
“The Loneliest Robot” needs praise for many reasons – for its very attractive and professional layout, its charming illustrations, its wide-ranging messages and warnings, and for its almost flawless writing. I did find some typos but they did not spoil my enjoyment of this novel which seems written for children and adults alike. I believe that its writer’s intention was just that – to tell a “simple” story simply, for children and adults.The novel is a parable and an allegory. It warns us against materialism and coldness. It challenges and gives alternatives to “drugs” like overwork, extreme high-tech extravaganza, competition, corporate America (and England!), selfies, iphones, social media, microchip enslavement, and even computers…though at the same time its saviour IS a computer (read robot) called UMA. Add “hUMAn” and you start to get the message that Andrew Glennon is championing.
The author has decided to write science fiction which has paradoxically nothing to do with science fiction. The world he portrays is an easily recognisable world in which we all live where greed and high-tech walk hand in hand along a path paved with internet intentions leading to hell. The reasons why mankind can become enslaved by modern and post-modern developments are clearly summarised in the idea that work, money and goods become paramount, and their endless pursuit defeats good friendship, time-orientated parenting, family, love, communication, empathy, and vital relationships. “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;-”….an idea clearly stated more than two hundred years ago by William Wordsworth.
“So what?” a cynical reader might well ask : “It’s an old idea, we survived, so what’s so praise-worthy about a modern-day version of everyman’s journey into greed and human loss?” Well, “The Loneliest Robot” is human but also machine-orientated, the threat is probably greater today than ever before - because of the real loss of critical indicators to contrary ways of thinking and living. Glennon wants everybody to reflect that children and parents’ getting on and loving, time for simple pleasures, gardens, migratory birds, and fishing trips to bond and to make happy, should never be overlooked.
“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?”
The danger he spells out is that we become entrapped in work, in poor communication, in real deals that are unreal, and we forget, overlook and indeed cannot achieve the “other” marvellous life because we lose ability, sight, vision, and in-sight…This is the author’s worthy endeavor : to articulate (through robotic help!) this message to a world where our iphones are friendlier than our friends and where we sometimes kill ourselves emailing or sms-ing on the phone while at the wheel. If none of this makes sense, then you, too, noble reader, are enslaved. Can you go for a meal with a friend or family and discard your iphone at the restaurant-door? If you can’t, beware! Read “The Loneliest Robot” and find time for “old-fashioned” communication. Be helped out of robotic dependency by a human robot, and believe in other values, or at least acknowledge them.
Could the messages in Glennon’s book have been disguised more to make them subtler and more intriguing? Just possibly, but, nevertheless, it’s a book to read and reread, a pleasure, a worry, and a real concern for all of us.
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The Loneliest Robot Andrew Glennon Matt Dixon Books Reviews
This is a one of a kind story about living a life of happiness and avoiding a wasted life of running after things. A story about the most important joys in life, family, friends, laughter, and sharing.
Please, get this book to those you love who might be caught on the hamster's wheel of chasing after things, working their life and health away for money and things while missing out on really living and enjoying their life. Better yet, stop them from ever getting lost in working instead of living.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Yes, it's a children's level book but perfect for all ages. You will love this story of a lonely robot given to a lonely 12 year old boy and you will follow these two friends into adulthood, work, falling in love, making life-long friendships, building and growing beauty in their lives and sharing it with others.
And there are even some beautiful illustrations included , my favorite being an older couple laughing and dancing together. Absolutely gorgeous!
You and your children will love " The Loneliest Robot". Don't wait, don't think, just get it and enjoy this wonderful tale.
This is an interesting story that will make readers think. I also think it is great for many ages. Robert Karma, as a child, lived in a world where his parents were too busy for him. His dad gives him a robot with the initials UMA on its' chest and Robert's life changes for the better. For a while anyway. Readers follow Robert as he gets older and life changes him. But this story is also abut UMA, the robot, and how the boy, who becomes a man, and the robot's lives intertwine. Great story with an interesting ending.
Reliant upon the assistance of technology for both complex and simple functions, it's easy to become invested in the devices in our lives rather than the people around us, as demonstrated in Andrew Glennon's The Loneliest Robot.
Robert Karma is a rather lonely boy as his father works all the time and his mother is preoccupied with buy loads of new things and being catered to. When his father orders a robot stamped with the name "UMA," Robert quickly becomes friends with him, as well as the young, silent girl next door, Velia Rose, who benefits from UMA's ingenious ideas. UMA makes quick work of tidying up, crafts delicious food and drinks, and designs helpful items and beautiful gardens, but his unique quality is his emotional capacity, demonstrated through a light in his chest that emanates blue when worried or upset and red when happy and content. As Robert grows older he seems to forget the lessons he learned as a young boy as he becomes addicted to technology and works for a large company reliant upon dedicated (over)workers. Before Robert gets in too deep, he manages to come to his senses, with the help of UMA, and better the lives of his co-workers.
While the story was thought-provoking and entertaining in the manner that humans were depicted as overly addicted to technology and greedily attaining more stuff (as is already easily seen in contemporary society), I felt that the names for various people and things were a bit too on-the-nose, making who or what these entities were blatantly obvious with little opportunity for reader interpretation. Robert's character development didn't sit quite right with how his character was initially presented - using a hard time lapse of five years and having his character do a complete about-face didn't feel natural and was instead a method of moving the plot forward. The illustrations were an endearing supplement to the narrative that would likely help younger readers enjoy the story.
“The Loneliest Robot” needs praise for many reasons – for its very attractive and professional layout, its charming illustrations, its wide-ranging messages and warnings, and for its almost flawless writing. I did find some typos but they did not spoil my enjoyment of this novel which seems written for children and adults alike. I believe that its writer’s intention was just that – to tell a “simple” story simply, for children and adults.
The novel is a parable and an allegory. It warns us against materialism and coldness. It challenges and gives alternatives to “drugs” like overwork, extreme high-tech extravaganza, competition, corporate America (and England!), selfies, iphones, social media, microchip enslavement, and even computers…though at the same time its saviour IS a computer (read robot) called UMA. Add “hUMAn” and you start to get the message that Andrew Glennon is championing.
The author has decided to write science fiction which has paradoxically nothing to do with science fiction. The world he portrays is an easily recognisable world in which we all live where greed and high-tech walk hand in hand along a path paved with internet intentions leading to hell. The reasons why mankind can become enslaved by modern and post-modern developments are clearly summarised in the idea that work, money and goods become paramount, and their endless pursuit defeats good friendship, time-orientated parenting, family, love, communication, empathy, and vital relationships. “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;-”….an idea clearly stated more than two hundred years ago by William Wordsworth.
“So what?” a cynical reader might well ask “It’s an old idea, we survived, so what’s so praise-worthy about a modern-day version of everyman’s journey into greed and human loss?” Well, “The Loneliest Robot” is human but also machine-orientated, the threat is probably greater today than ever before - because of the real loss of critical indicators to contrary ways of thinking and living. Glennon wants everybody to reflect that children and parents’ getting on and loving, time for simple pleasures, gardens, migratory birds, and fishing trips to bond and to make happy, should never be overlooked.
“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?”
The danger he spells out is that we become entrapped in work, in poor communication, in real deals that are unreal, and we forget, overlook and indeed cannot achieve the “other” marvellous life because we lose ability, sight, vision, and in-sight…This is the author’s worthy endeavor to articulate (through robotic help!) this message to a world where our iphones are friendlier than our friends and where we sometimes kill ourselves emailing or sms-ing on the phone while at the wheel. If none of this makes sense, then you, too, noble reader, are enslaved. Can you go for a meal with a friend or family and discard your iphone at the restaurant-door? If you can’t, beware! Read “The Loneliest Robot” and find time for “old-fashioned” communication. Be helped out of robotic dependency by a human robot, and believe in other values, or at least acknowledge them.
Could the messages in Glennon’s book have been disguised more to make them subtler and more intriguing? Just possibly, but, nevertheless, it’s a book to read and reread, a pleasure, a worry, and a real concern for all of us.
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