<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402901765763820672</id><updated>2012-02-16T12:44:30.979-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson</title><subtitle type='html'>As a result of an unlawful experiment, programmer Arnold creates his ideal companion an android Maggie. She is an embodiment of everything Arnold ever wanted in a woman, but when they get separated, robotic virtual girl finds out more about people and herself than Arnold expected.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7402901765763820672/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Virtual Girl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402901765763820672.post-514806550960081488</id><published>2011-01-26T12:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T12:02:23.674-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Thoughts</title><content type='html'>***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fiction book is a simple but very exciting and humane story of an android girl created by an ambitious and licentious scientist Arnold who leaves her in the cruel Real World. This novel is a very good starting point for new readers of science fiction. Sending virtual girl Maggie out to live her own real life, Amy Thomson originates a plausible character with her own personal emotional and mental skills to build her own individual human-like life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this book is good but a little dry. But the premise is very interesting and the approach to how a robot might feel first having her own body seems to be very realistic.&lt;br /&gt;This is a good story of an android in a woman body with her gradual movement to awareness.&lt;br /&gt;I have read this book several times and I like it very much. I highly recommend it to everyone. Very humane story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A truly involving tale about a journey of self discovery both literally and figuratively. It is also about compassion, humanity and human relations. The creator of a robot Maggie seems less human than his creation. The surrounding characters portrayed different cultures. I definitely recommend the book to readers of all ages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a fun read. Maggie is a product of a virtual reality experiment that is illegal in the nearest future. At the beginning her talented creator and an android become separated during a violent incident and Maggie is forced to learn what it is to live her own life and become a real person. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning of the novel, Arnold created virtual girl Maggie out of the computer virtual reality. Arnold gave her a body and a memory, and finally she got her own self-awareness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fiction story is an amazing examination of what it really means to be human being done from the outside.&lt;br /&gt;As for me, unfortunately, there is almost nothing new in this novel. The plot is predictable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jinformation.com/virtual-girl.htm"&gt;Virtual Girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7402901765763820672-514806550960081488?l=my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com/feeds/514806550960081488/comments/default' title='Комментарии к сообщению'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-thoughts.html#comment-form' title='Комментарии: 0'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7402901765763820672/posts/default/514806550960081488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7402901765763820672/posts/default/514806550960081488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-virtual-girl.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-thoughts.html' title='Some Thoughts'/><author><name>Virtual Girl</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
