Thank you so much, Pete, for your generous and insightful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth (Alien Buddha Press, 2025).
Here are Pete’s opening lines:
The Lost Book of Zeroth is comic, tragic, and ultimately human. The irony is that the book’s first three sections are “peopled by robots:” Sophia, Little Sophia, Little Spark, AI Robot Barbie, Cyborg Guy, AI Robot Amica, AI Robot Optimus, and Nurse Grace. Reality and virtual reality coincide and often collide. Leonhard gives her robots human attributes: jealousy, fear, desire, ambition, sacrifice, greed, dread, recklessness, and selfishness, to name a few.
Like humans, the robots are resourceful and fallible. They succeed and fail. But, unlike Sophia’s human Eliza, they do not age and cannot “suffer love……”
To read the rest of Peter’s review, “Open Wide the Door to Your Heart: The Lost Book of Zeroth by Barbara Harris Leonhard”, follow this link. Thank you for reading!
https://yourimpossiblevoice.com/open-wide-the-door/
Your Impossible Voice has other reviews of books, so explore! Pete highly recommends the journal. The Mission of the journal:
“Your Impossible Voice publishes brash and velvety new work from around the globe, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, literary reviews, essays, and interviews.”
My book, published by Alien Buddha Press, is sold in paperback format for $11.25 on Amazon.
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