{"id":3852,"date":"2014-06-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2014-06-10T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:49:00","slug":"expiration-day-by-william-campbell-powell-book-review-created-or-birthed-what-makes-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"Expiration Day, by William Campbell Powell (book review) – created or birthed, what makes human?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>I’m definitely human.
\nWait! I’m not?!
\nBut I feel human…<\/p>\n

As a rare human child, Tania knows that her humanoid robot <\/a>classmates will go back to the factory at age 18. Shocked to discover that she too is just a teknoid, she’ll fight to stay alive past her Expiration Day!<\/em><\/p>\n

Tania addresses her diary (read free excerpt here<\/a>) to alien Zog, whose observations surprisingly appear among her musings on playing bass guitar and doing a Shakespeare play with nearby boys’ school.<\/p>\n

Rather eerie to discuss this book just after a computer passed the Turing Test<\/a> for the first time, tricking researchers into thinking it was a real 13 year old boy!<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Expiration Day \/ William Campbell Powell. Tor Teen, 2014.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>:\u00a0 In the 2050s when humans so rarely have babies, music-loving Tania suddenly discovers that she’s a robot and decides to fight to stay alive past her mandatory recycling date.<\/p>\n

The global fertility crisis couldn’t end adults’ longing to have children to love,\u00a0 so teknoids were created.Each is reused or reprogrammed by the Oxted factory at age 18.<\/p>\n

For Tania, that means no more playing bass with her band, no more Shakespeare performances, no more helping Dad navigate their shared grief over Mum’s recent death…<\/p>\n

But she feels so human, with burning philosophical questions in her heart and such a desire to study psychology at university!<\/p>\n

Taking Oxted to court to break their “lease” of Tania to Dad is their only option – could their desperate ploy work?\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m definitely human. Wait! I’m not?! But I feel human… As a rare human child, Tania knows that her humanoid robot classmates will go back to the factory at age 18. Shocked to discover that she too is just a teknoid, she’ll fight to stay alive past her Expiration Day! Tania addresses her diary (read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,68,62],"tags":[7,4,202,20,5,37,16,32,18,40,44,43,39,27,49,86,31,15,9,21,35,33,58,3,143],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-future","category-science-fiction","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2014","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-theater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}