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Botboy, my Botboy

A perfect addition to your science-fiction shelf.

ISBN: 978193563800-1

With questions about her independence looming, an older woman receives an unexpected gift—a robot. “Botboy” is a robot designed by her now dead husband to help her in the garden, to drive her to appointments, essentially to allow her to remain in her home to the end of her days. Botboy makes a fine companion and an encyclopedic medical resource. When she introduces her “social robot” to her gardening group, however, the robot is met with suspicion and hostility.

So begins her journey from a quiet, reclusive life to the world stage, as she advocates social robotics as a way to help elderly or disabled people gain independence.

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“As is with all great works of science fiction, as we have seen and experienced recently with the movie Avatar (2009), there is a mix of compelling character study and scientific fact in a driving narrative that grips your heart and mind. Botboy, my Botboy is such a great work. As a mother myself, the book triggered a deep, emotional connection and as a woman, I appreciate the great love story at the book's very core. Brave and bold, funny and heartbreaking, this book will inhabit you and never leave. A stunning debut by Dr. O’Toole.“

—Jamie Lee Curtis, New York Times best-selling author and Golden Globe winning actress