A novel by Amy Thomson
1993
Description
The Virtual Girl is a robotic body with a human-like artificial intelligence brain. She is illegal and she looks human because of her creator, programmer Arnold. Using his family trust fund for illegal electronics Arnold however lives the life of a homeless person. He is licentious and a little loopy but Maggie growing and coming to consciousness through the book plot becomes wonderful.
Recent Comments & Reviews:
- Very interesting read. Main character, robot Maggie, truly grows from naive android to adult personality through-out the story.
- An illegal product of a virtual reality program in the near future, Maggie eventually becomes a sentient and conscious being. As her sinister creator programmer Arnold and Maggie get separated because of a violent incident, Maggie get forced to live for herself and learn how to be a person.
It is a sensitive and emotional story about what it is like to be a person. - I think his book is a little dull but I like it nevertheless. The ending is very nice.
- The fiction novel tells a very engaging and light story of the creation of an AI gaining her own independence by an accident. The described future world contains a few other intelligences such as her own. Naive android Maggie eventually grows into some kind of a human-like person. But it seems like Maggie never get a full understanding of all that she really is. So this is only an opinion.
- This is amazing SF story showing us what it’s like to be a person.
- Virtual Girl, the main character have to learn to survive. I recommend this book to fans of artificial intelligence, suspense and Robocop-like characters. If you interested in the mystery of being alive you definitely will like this book by Amy Thomson.
- This is a good story of a robotic android in a girl body showing how she moves to her own personality.
Amy Thomson’s Works:
Storyteller (2003)
Through Alien Eyes (1999)
Horn Dancer (1996)
The Color of Distance (1995)
Virtual Girl (1993)
Another virtual girl
