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On the vacuum surface of the moon, life for Ai-dan and a cohort of moon-dwelling androids is anything but a lunar wasteland of boredom. They spend their days maintaining lunar data centers with a quaint blue-green, and sometimes whitish, orb hanging in the sky. Between playing games and spirited debates on the meaning of the shimmering orb, the robots’ existence is near idyllic. But when a malfunctioning system leads Ai-dan to stumble upon a mysterious box and then a soft-bodied android-total lunar oddities-the harmony of their world gets tossed into disarray. As they dig deeper into these enigmatic discoveries, Ai-dan and their friends must reboot their understanding of existence-risking a crash in their carefully crafted, pre-programmed worldviews. Join Ai-dan, Ai-ko, Ai-mory and the rest as they toggle through an unusual adventure to uncover the hidden secrets of their life on the moon, and in the process, learn what it means to be and have free will. Will Ai-dan be able to integrate answers into their programming, or will their quest lead to yet another ‘factory reset’? The fate of their lunar logic hangs in the balance!
I struggled mightily to finish this, but it wasn’t necessarily the book’s fault, I had just started a new job when I bought it, its target audience is much younger than my reading level, and honestly I straight up forgot I was reading it for a few months there. It’s a good introduction to science fiction with many fundamental concepts being introduced like free will, autonomy, finding one’s purpose in the world, and finding friends to help you with your missions. My only real complaint is that the chapters ranged in length from a single page to many more than that, so it was difficult for me to gauge where I was in the story just based on what chapter I was on. I finally had to just do page number math every night so I could tell how much longer I had.
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