The Automatic Detective
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When his neighbors are kidnapped, robot Mack Megaton wanders the dark alleys and glittering high-rises of Empire City, taking on a talking gorilla, a clever dame, a mutant lowlife, a little green mob boss, and a dark conspiracy at the heart of the city to find the missing family, a quest in which the fate of Empire City is at stake. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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In general, I like Martinez. This one was good but it's not my favorite (I think that one would be “Too Many Curses”).
I've read a couple other books by Martinez and wasn't disappointed. He writes a fun, fast-moving story and likes to tweak genres in a playful manner. With this one, it's a marriage of science fiction (robots, mutations) and crime noir (our hero, Mack Megaton is a robot cab-driver turned detective). Here, he's on the hunt for some missing neighbors and there's more than meets the eye. It's a good story and light reading which suited my mood.
