Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:34 pm
I saw a used 1st edition hardcover cheap on amazon, so I snagged it and just reread it.
This is a spoiler discussion, as much as you can spoiler a book from the 60's, so ye be warned.
Mike the computer... "dies" at the end.
Or did he? Prof de la Paz suggested in the book that the biggest enemy to their revolution, after it is done, would be Mike. So did he really randomly die at the end, leaving Manny feeling lonely? Here's some options:
1. He really did take too much damage in the attack, and some threshold for consciousness was crossed and he lost it.
2. Professor de la Paz killed him.... they did, after all, have lots of discussions behind the scenes of the story, according to Manny's first person account.
3. For the same reason, the Prof may have convinced Mike to kill himself once he was no longer needed to throw rocks at Earth.
4. Maybe Mike didn't die, just agreed to remain silent, permanently?
So.
Does anyone care?
This is a spoiler discussion, as much as you can spoiler a book from the 60's, so ye be warned.
Mike the computer... "dies" at the end.
Or did he? Prof de la Paz suggested in the book that the biggest enemy to their revolution, after it is done, would be Mike. So did he really randomly die at the end, leaving Manny feeling lonely? Here's some options:
1. He really did take too much damage in the attack, and some threshold for consciousness was crossed and he lost it.
2. Professor de la Paz killed him.... they did, after all, have lots of discussions behind the scenes of the story, according to Manny's first person account.
3. For the same reason, the Prof may have convinced Mike to kill himself once he was no longer needed to throw rocks at Earth.
4. Maybe Mike didn't die, just agreed to remain silent, permanently?
So.
Does anyone care?