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Robyn Egg A Futuristic Thriller eBook Mark Souza

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Robyn Egg A Futuristic Thriller eBook Mark Souza

At an unspecified time in the future, big business controls nearly all aspects of civilized life. From clothing that displays ads based on nearby consumers to food production that comes from only one company, escaping the vice of control is nearly impossible.

To make matters even more dismal, human reproduction is no longer possible without the aid of expensive technology. Due to a genetic problem in the past, all living humans are believed to be sterile clones, incapable of making their own children without the benefit of a complex system that requires various applications, a lot of money, and one company that essentially controls who will be born and who will not.

Trudging his way through this dreary world is Moyer Winfield. A low-paid computer programmer with a passion for books (though many of the classics have been banned), Winfield muddles through a job that, though it allows him to live better than the laboring classes, does not get close to allowing he and his wife enough to afford a baby. And much to Winfield's dismay, there is little more in life that his somewhat ditzy wife Robyn wants than a baby.

As Winfield seals a secret pact with a powerful man in order to get his wife what she wants, it is clear that danger lurks around the corner. When the deal begins to turn sour, Winfield may have no other option than to join with a small resistance group that lives far outside his city. Will he throw away the world he knows in order to trust in the unknown?

Reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, in many ways Moyer Winfield is not all that different from Winston Smith. Both men begin as mild rebels in their frightening worlds, gaining momentum as the claws of totalitarian power (whether from government or business or both) close around them. This is true for many books that have followed Orwell's high water mark. Dystopian futures where books and thoughts become the real weapons against oppression are nothing new and, on occasion, Winfield's world reeks of obviousness.

A world of over-consumption where clothing has a corporate mind of its own is not nearly as much fun as Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story characters, fawning over "ass luxury" brand products though the message is more or less the same.

Nevertheless, Winfield is real enough as a protagonist to root for. No one chooses the world into which they are born and his attempts at survival are understandable. More complexity in his world and his character might have made the book more memorable, but it does fit neatly in the "possible enough to be frightening" scheme of science fiction.

Reviewed by Collin Marchiando for IndieReader


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Robyn Egg A Futuristic Thriller eBook Mark Souza Reviews

Do not like Robyn very much and Moyer is a wimp.
Moyer Winfield wants more than anything to make his wife, Robyn, happy. All she wants is a baby. Unfortunately, we learn that the Winfields, as well as the rest of Mark Souza's dystopian world, is infertile. Their only hope for having a child is to pay a small fortune to Hogan-Perko--a company that not only clones children, but seems to have their hands in everything else, too.

I found the future in Robyn's Egg to be both fascinating and terrifying. The technology that allows the population to be constantly wired in, cloning children and manipulating their DNA, rehabilitation that borders on lobotomy, and big business playing God--are but a few of the themes that piqued my interest.

Even though Mark Souza introduces you to a lot of ideas and technology, it's not overwhelming. It's surprisingly easy to read while also bringing human emotion to the surface--you're always aware of how much Robyn Winfield wants a baby. A lot.

What I loved This may be mean, but I absolutely loved Robyn's desperation. She wants a child so bad--you can feel it in your gut. She is so strongly driven by this want that she will do anything to make it a reality. Call me sick if you will, but I love an obsession, and that girl is past the point of no return. It's so well written that you can't help but long for that child alongside her.

I also love the literary references. Even though most books are illegal, Moyer is able to block his feed and read whatever he wants, and he has great taste in literature. I'm not surprised that books are illegal in this future of theirs. After all, knowledge is power and Hogan-Perko wants to stay at the top of the food chain.

What I didn't love I felt like Robyn stole the show, while Moyer seemed to vanish at times. This may have been intended to further strengthen that obsession or to show Moyer's drive to make her happy, or it could be that I just related to Robyn more than Moyer. Regardless, this was his story and at times he seemed invisible.

There were a few places I felt the story dragging on--a few scenes could have been shorter, but overall the pace was good and I stayed interested and reading. I'm not sure that the ending really answered all of my questions, but that's a good thing--it'll leave me thinking about the story long after I've read it.

Overall I really enjoyed it. The similarities between our world and the one Mark Souza`s created in Robyn's Egg are also both fascinating and terrifying--mostly terrifying. I like to think today's dystopian novels are like tomorrow's Aesop's Fables, so let's play nice, mind our own business, and eat our vegetables.

(originally reviewed at EasilyMused.com)
At an unspecified time in the future, big business controls nearly all aspects of civilized life. From clothing that displays ads based on nearby consumers to food production that comes from only one company, escaping the vice of control is nearly impossible.

To make matters even more dismal, human reproduction is no longer possible without the aid of expensive technology. Due to a genetic problem in the past, all living humans are believed to be sterile clones, incapable of making their own children without the benefit of a complex system that requires various applications, a lot of money, and one company that essentially controls who will be born and who will not.

Trudging his way through this dreary world is Moyer Winfield. A low-paid computer programmer with a passion for books (though many of the classics have been banned), Winfield muddles through a job that, though it allows him to live better than the laboring classes, does not get close to allowing he and his wife enough to afford a baby. And much to Winfield's dismay, there is little more in life that his somewhat ditzy wife Robyn wants than a baby.

As Winfield seals a secret pact with a powerful man in order to get his wife what she wants, it is clear that danger lurks around the corner. When the deal begins to turn sour, Winfield may have no other option than to join with a small resistance group that lives far outside his city. Will he throw away the world he knows in order to trust in the unknown?

Reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, in many ways Moyer Winfield is not all that different from Winston Smith. Both men begin as mild rebels in their frightening worlds, gaining momentum as the claws of totalitarian power (whether from government or business or both) close around them. This is true for many books that have followed Orwell's high water mark. Dystopian futures where books and thoughts become the real weapons against oppression are nothing new and, on occasion, Winfield's world reeks of obviousness.

A world of over-consumption where clothing has a corporate mind of its own is not nearly as much fun as Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story characters, fawning over "ass luxury" brand products though the message is more or less the same.

Nevertheless, Winfield is real enough as a protagonist to root for. No one chooses the world into which they are born and his attempts at survival are understandable. More complexity in his world and his character might have made the book more memorable, but it does fit neatly in the "possible enough to be frightening" scheme of science fiction.

Reviewed by Collin Marchiando for IndieReader