We're going to build a better world.

Prototype Exodus continues the story set some one hundred years following a nuclear near-annihilation of humanity, and five years after the apparent resolution of the conflict between the Mainlanders and the Outlanders at the end of the preceding novel, Prototype D. Both groups were supposed to have grown together, but had actually remained divided.
Des, was the first fully functioning robot programmed with the Soul Project created by genius programmer, Hazel. With it, the robot had been given full consciousness and emotion: more than machine, he is fully alive. He had left Mainland, alone, five years before and found a home, and friendship, in a village in the wasteland. But their destruction by another nuclear bomb takes Des back, looking for his creator - and revenge.

Like the first book in this series, the story is good and detailed with some nice characterisation of both people and robots. However, there is also some unnecessary repetition which slows the action and loses some smooth continuity of the plot. It is, nevertheless, a good (if predictable) story, the tension building as it progresses and with an unexpected wash of emotion contained within it. The narration by Gary Bennett is good, adding to the enjoyment of the story with a well crafted performance and differentiated voicing of the individual characters.

I was fortunate in being freely gifted a complimentary copy of Prototype Exodus by the rights holder, after my request via Audiobook Boom. Thank you. It is an interesting science fiction story with the intrigue of political conspiracy and the questioning of what truly constitutes a person as well as that age old nature of nurture conundrum in a somewhat unusual context. Definitely worth reading, and an enjoyable, easy book to hear. I look forward to the nexr, should a third be written.

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