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Brother, Frankenstein, by Michael Bunker
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Dr. Chris Alexander, a borderline sociopath and technological genius, has designed an advanced cybernetic life form from prototype decommissioned military drones and top-secret experimental DARPA technology. The HADroid was supposed to be a military grade robot with the transplanted heart and brain of a human donor that would transform it into a devastating state-of-the-art war machine when activated by its onboard human operator.
When the mad doctor steals the dying child of a simple Amish couple and transplants the brain and cardiovascular system of their dying 11-year-old autistic son into the incredibly lethal robot, the dark forces of government come looking for their investment.
Dr. Alexander and the monster escape into another Amish community to hide among the plain folk. Frank, the autistic 11-year-old boy trapped inside the body of the world's most deadly robot, befriends another child who will help the prisoner inside the machine. Tensions arise among the plain and pacifistic yet closed minded Amish as they begin to suspect just what kind of technological monstrosity is hiding among them. Before long, hard men who do the government's most dirty deeds will come looking for a killing machine only to find a boy named Frank who has the power to defend a closed society from the worst of the world.
Brother, Frankenstein, by Michael Bunker- Amazon Sales Rank: #75467 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 498 minutes
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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful. A Techno-Thriller that breaks your Heart... And gives you Hope By Nick Cole The future has big problems. Corporate/Government bad guys still want power and state of the art weapons. Children are born with disadvantages and die. The innocent get hurt in the crossfire between right and wrong. And one mad doctor wants to give the most fragile of lives a chance at something normal. Even if it means putting it inside a DARPA Drone that's more Terminator than the T-1000. But along with that broken child goes the heart of a champion. And... maybe we'll see that the weapons of the future might need to think for us when we fail to. Maybe we'll see that the innocent can be strong in the darkest of humanity's final moments.Monster?Weapon System?Human?Bunker fires on all cylinders with a thrill ride that will break your heart... and give you hope.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Bunker's Best Work Yet By W. Swardstrom One of the best things about the Indie Book Revolution is that readers have the chance to read stories that never would have seen the light of day under the previous model of publishing. Compelling, interesting, and engaging stories that would have been shunned by the New York publishing houses. Yet thanks to the digital revolution, we get to enjoy these imaginative tales for ourselves. We get to be the Gatekeepers.Michael Bunker’s newest book Brother, Frankenstein is one of those books. Of course, we don’t know for sure, but it is too daring, too out of the box, too…Amish…to be a traditionally published book. We like our Amish in neat little romance books. A girl in an apron on the front cover, clutching a bouquet of flowers, and a covered wagon driving away in the distance. There’s too much risk to allow the Amish to mix with sci-fi in the way Bunker does in Brother, Frankenstein.But in that risk, in taking a leap of faith that readers can cope with “out of the box,” Bunker has achieved a wonderful book that transcends many of the books you would be able to find on the shelf of Barnes and Noble today.In a way, this was always meant to be. The simple life of the Amish, combined with the world’s first truly science fiction story – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The moral dilemmas that Dr. Frankenstein encountered and dealt with in the groundbreaking novel are presented here as well. In Bunker’s work, Dr. Chris Alexander has a military grade robot body that is just in need of a heart and brain. The donations come from an autistic Amish boy who was dying anyway. Dr. Alexander believes he is giving the boy a gift. Another chance at life…in a body that can wipe entire towns off the map with the firepower contained within.As Dr. Alexander goes on the run with Frank, the government sends in an agent who is as ruthless as he is skilled at his job – Cyrano Dresser. Dresser approaches the search for Frank and the Doc as his own White Whale, and has no problem in running over whoever gets in his way. He is a special type of evil villain and I can totally see the character on the big screen.So, with the government hunting them down, where do the fugitives go? Amish country of course. There they fit in (as best they can), and Alexander works to contain Frank’s emotions. Emotions aren’t Frank’s friends – that’s because when he gets mad, he transforms into a Voltron-type robot capable of mass destruction. Not quite Amish.In the end, I found the book to be quite enjoyable and Bunker’s best work to date. Pennsylvania was a Bunker’s previous attempt at “Amish Sci-Fi” but he’s refined his style and his pacing in Brother, Frankenstein was much improved. The stakes are high for Alexander and his experiment, and the emotional payoff for the reader and for Frank is worth it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Head, Heart, and Heroism: Bunker’s Latest Creation Is Alive! By Chris P Every once in a while, a book comes along that accomplishes something truly unique. When Michael Bunker’s the author, that happens more often than not.With Brother, Frankenstein, the man who broke new ground by creating a whole new sub-genre called Amish Sci-Fi has done it again. A government’s need to exercise complete control in its rather ironic quest to “preserve freedom”; technology run amuck, fueled by the hubris of a scientist with a god complex; and the needs of an autistic boy to understand the world around him, to grow as a human being—all come together in the thrill-ride that is Brother, Frankenstein.I won’t summarize the plot here—you can read the book’s description for that. But I do want to talk about what I think Bunker does well. First, he adopts the first-person perspective of his scientist- god-wannabe, Chris Alexander, for most of the narrative. In third person, Alexander would be easy to write off as a myopic sociopath too blind by his own self-regard to see the costs of the moral choices he makes. But once you’re inside his head, you realize it’s not so easy to pigeon-hole his motivations. His intentions, if murky, are not purely evil. And it’s hard to argue with the “good” he does by saving young autistic boy Frank and giving him a chance to live and grow and learn—even if it means turning Frank into a HADroid killing machine. Exploring Alexander’s motivations and presenting us with a narrator that is both flawed and suspect ramps up the tension (and interest level) for the reader. Who wants a perfect, morally unambiguous storyteller? Where’s the fun in that? Bunker’s unreliable narrator challenges us, and anything worth having—including a satisfying reading experience—is worth working for.Familiar Bunker themes are here too: the government’s need to control its population to preserve its power; fifth columnists working to undermine from the inside; and a window on the world of the Amish, who become a place of refuge for Alexander and his creation.Oh yeah, there’s that. Alexander steals Frank's brain from his parents (evil!) and places it in a DARPA-funded experimental combat robot, which keeps the boy from dying (okay, LESS evil). Alexander does everything he can to keep his experiment (which happens to now include the evolving consciousness of this young Amish boy) alive. He even helps Frank embrace his Amish roots, inevitably bringing the raison d’etre of his killer creation into conflict with the moral center of our protagonist, the boy Frank, as he embraces Amish values. See what I mean by complex?But complex doesn’t equal a boring reading experience—not by a long shot. Constantly pursued by a government Black Ops unit even the regular Black Ops guys don’t know about—and foreshadowing another controlling authority Bunker readers will be familiar with—Alexander and his experiment-cum-adopted-son seek refuge in an Amish community. The climax of the tale is, to put it mildly, emotionally explosive.Fast-paced, thoughtful, provocative, innovative, and the best thing Bunker has written to date. Like Sci-Fi? Want your heart AND your head engaged by an excellent story of intrigue and immersive prose? Brother, this is the tale for you.FYI: I was provided an ARC of this novel in exchange for an objective review.
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