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Lovelace had been in a body for twenty-eight minutes, and it still felt every bit as wrong as it had the second she woke up inside it. There was no good reason as to why. Nothing was malfunctioning. Nothing was broken. All her files had transferred properly. No system scans could explain the feeling of wrongness, but it was there all the same, gnawing at her pathways. Pepper has said it would take time to adjust, but she hadn't said how much time. Lovelace didn't like that. The lack of schedule made her uneasy.

Interesting beginning-- machine as obsessively regimented. Feels familiar to Star Trek Next Generation fans, no?

Data-ette! Currently rewatching STNG (from the beginning this time) ... Gods, season 1 sucked dilithium waste ...

I really enjoy the fact that she doesn't just wake up and everything is A-Ok. It...makes her more human.

Athena wrote: "Data-ette! Currently rewatching STNG (from the beginning this time) ... Gods, season 1 sucked dilithium waste ..."

LOL

I loved Voyager but it seems no one else did.

I liked that too, Mrs. Joseph-the description of what it felt like to go from having her awareness and presence spread out over an entire ship to being limited to one spot at a time and feeling trapped.
Interesting perspective, considering the object of giving her a body was liberation.

Emily wrote: "I liked that too, Mrs. Joseph-the description of what it felt like to go from having her awareness and presence spread out over an entire ship to being limited to one spot at a time and feeling tra..."

Exactly!

And I think that was (is?) the problem: it's a liberation to us (sentient mobile creatures) because we can't even imagine being stuck in a single location without independent mobility. Well, we can but we consider it a disability.

That is one of the things I really liked about the first novel, that the author didn't come at things strictly from a human perspective.

Emily wrote: "That is one of the things I really liked about the first novel, that the author didn't come at things strictly from a human perspective."

Me, too. I also love that she never made Sidra "human." She made her sentient but not human. And I was surprised at how big of a difference it made!

The reckoning of events in seconds reminded me a lot of Breq's point of view in the Ancillary novels. Breq, of course, was also an AI, now in a single human body.

I initially found the discussion subjects slightly confusing, since my e-book copy doesn't have pages. Using my handy-dandy phone calculator, one page is approx. 15 Kindle locations. Hope that helps other participants!

Beth wrote: "The reckoning of events in seconds reminded me a lot of Breq's point of view in the Ancillary novels. Breq, of course, was also an AI, now in a single human body.

I initially found the discussion ..."

Oh, gosh! I'm sorry! This one doesn't have numbered chapters and the chapter titles are all so similar. I couldn't think of how else to break it up.

Any suggestions?

Yeah, the TOC in the Kindle edition is a long string of very similar or identical names, so I can understand the difficulty! The page numbers you added do help, and now that I have a decent idea of how the sections are structured it shouldn't be hard to figure out how the posts correspond.

Beth wrote: "I initially found the discussion subjects slightly confusing, since my e-book copy doesn't have pages. Using my handy-dandy phone calculator, one page is approx. 15 Kindle locations. Hope that helps other participants! ."

But what about font sizes?! Honestly, one of my most frustrating things about Kindle is figuring out length, etc.

You guys are funny! I can't wait to start.

MrsJoseph wrote: "I loved Voyager but it seems no one else did."

Athena wrote: "Data-ette! Currently rewatching STNG (from the beginning this time) ... Gods, season 1 sucked dilithium waste ..."

Carol. wrote: "Interesting beginning-- machine as obsessively regimented. Feels familiar to Star Trek Next Generation fans, no?"

Really good point - Athena, I'm rewatching from the start also (halfway through season 2 now), I think Lovelace/Sidra feels a little more human than Data at the beginning - possibly because her anxiety at being in the open comes across so strongly. Similar in the child-like innocence though.

And don't worry MrsJoseph - you aren't alone!

MrsJoseph wrote: "Beth wrote: "The reckoning of events in seconds reminded me a lot of Breq's point of view in the Ancillary novels. Breq, of course, was also an AI, now in a single human body.

I initially found th..."

They way you're doing it, is fine ... as long as there's a (searchable, thank you, e-reader) quote in the first post, we should be able to locate the thing.

Beth, thanks for figuring that out. I'm reading on kindle as well.
Mrs. Jospeh, the quotes at the beginning are great identifiers for the chapters. I don't know how else you'd do it either.

Saphana wrote: "They way you're doing it, is fine ... as long as there's a (searchable, thank you, e-reader) quote in the first post, we should be able to locate the thing. "

Hadn't thought of this. Great suggestion!