In the Lives of Puppets

Resumen del libro

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots - fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.

The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled 'HAP', he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio - a past spent hunting humans.

When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.

Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: can he accept love with strings attached?

Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

Biografía del autor

Empezó a escribir a los ocho años, aunque por aquel entonces no sabía que se convertiría en su trabajo dos décadas después. Autor Best Seller del New York Times, sus obras de ficción LGTBIQ+ le han valido el premio Lambda Literary. En 2020, Amazon lo situó en la lista de mejores libros dentro de la categoría de ciencia ficción y fantasía. Como miembro del colectivo, Klune cree que es importante, ahora más que nunca, tener una representación queer fidedigna y positiva en las historias.