Then she meets Silver and she’s totally, completely, irreversibly in love. She’s shy, awkward, and every aspect of her personality is dominated by her exotic, powerful, and sometimes frightening mother. Jane may be wealthy but she is not happy. She’s a rich girl, and the house she lives in with her mother floats above the city. At the novel’s outset, Jane doesn’t really care about any of this. Only actors, artists and musicians are safe from being replaced by robots everyone else lives off welfare. There is 85 to 90 percent unemployment – robots have become so advanced that they have made the human work force obsolete. Jane is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in the future. It is a futuristic Romeo and Juliet story, the kind of epic love story that ends in seeming heartbreak yet has love triumphing over tragedy. Don’t cringe, it may be SF, but I promise you: this novel has everything you’re looking for in a great romance and a great book. The Silver Metal Lover is a science fiction novel first published in 1982.
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