The Telefax Box (Book) - 10/23/2009 9:14:26 AM
Review: The Telefax Trilogy – book 1
From the imagination of Toni Seger comes the first book in a Trilogy of futuristic satirical distinction. Once you know the characters, you won’t be able to put this one down. I laughed at the irony performed through beings from other galaxies. Their strange characteristics and dress added to the already engrossing story. A murder mystery in disguise, this is a teaser for the next book.
It begins in a laboratory at Central Command. Everything is run by The Machine, and in her laboratory, Sudbury, a Borck, is celebrating her achievement, a humanistic robot she named Andora, with the Quamat Streiger, who is there to receive a pain treatment. The story continues on a gambling asteroid with Druscan, the Tertian also from Central Command. A murder ensues and Druscan befriends Zantons Mishta and Llona who are key in helping Druscan figure out his next move. Interrogated by a top investigator and watched by Bojans, a lower race, Druscan struggles to learn what is happening and discovers himself along the way.
The multitude of characters are believably detailed. The settings are described to entice incredible visualization. This is a fascinating story about love, hate, racism, bureaucracy, truth and lies. I cannot wait to read book 2.
The Telefax Box (Book) - 1/20/2009 11:10:47 AM
The Telefax Box has enough Sci Fi trappings to satisfy the most demanding aficionado of the genre: highly inventive future technology, arcane vocabulary, quotes from various intergalactic sources, and a fascinating array of highly diverse alien races. But it is no space cowboy adventure story. Billed as a “satiric deconstruction of modern life,” it does raise issues about our dependence on technology. But the story is almost entirely moved forward by the dialogue and the complex relationships between the various characters. This gives equal billing to chunky issues like racial privilege and where we draw the line between life and artificial intelligence. Seger has constructed a book here in which the whole is larger than the parts of which it is composed.
The Telefax Box (Book) - 11/21/2008 12:02:14 PM
Extraordinarily insightful about the issues we face today. The author uses satire to illuminate complex social and political issues in a remarkably entertaining manner. The mystery is genuinely mysterious and the unraveling of the plot keeps you welded to your seat!
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