Nine days of 9 (part 7): Are the evil machines really evil?
Monday is another chance for all of you to win a prize! There are two books remaining, and two more chances to win. So without further ado, read on to find out how…
One of the first exclusives shared with SciencePunk were original design sketches for the Fabrication Machine, the monster at the heart of Shane Acker’s tale. A machine with intellect but no soul, it is responsible for building the Chancellor’s war machines before it turns against its masters.
But what makes the Fabrication Machine evil per se? Sure, it wiped out the entire human race, but in effect it was simply completing a job that one army started. In the original 11 minute short, the machines and stitchpunks are connected by a talisman able to capture the souls of living organisms, each party holding one half. The Fabrication Machine wants the other half so that it can assimilate, and presumably build truly living creatures. Now I ask you, what is wrong with that? The stitchpunks are after the same thing, only they use cunning and invention in place of aggression and physical strength.
So my next question for the contest: are the machines really evil, or simply a different shade of humankind?
- Raquel Leoncio
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