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420 pages, Hardcover
First published April 25, 2023
You are a dream. A hope. A remembrance of what we once were.
In an old forest is a strange little tree house, but even stranger are its denizens: an inventor – Giovanni Lawson, his twenty-one-year-old son Victor, and their two assistants Nurse Ratched and Rambo. What’s so strange about this, you ask? Well, except for Victor, the rest are all robots. But they are a family and they live happily.
Their situation changes when Victor discovers a faulty android in a scrap yard and restores it. Labelled ‘HAP’ for being a ‘Hysterically Angry Puppet’, this new member of the unusual family opens up strange feelings in Victor. But when Hap inadvertently alerts robots about Gio’s past, Gio is captured and taken to the City of Electric Dreams. Now it is upto the remaining four to get their beloved father-figure back.
The story comes to us mostly in the limited third-person perspective of Victor.
"Employers do not keep their employees in cages," Nurse Ratched said.
The Coachman laughed. "And that is where you're wrong, my dear. I happen to know that employers once did keep their employees in cages called 'cubicles'!"