The War of the Artilect (Stryker Series Book 3) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The Sentinel moved over to one of the pods and peered through its transparent covering. Inside he saw an extremely old man. His face was covered in wrinkles and he was short and frail. His eyes were sunken, his skin was dirty, and he had only a few greasy strands of hair left. If the Sentinel had not known better he would have thought that he was staring at a corpse. There is so little life left in you! How long have you been like this? Are you prisoners, or did you choose this existence? A thousand feet away the robot had stopped at one of the pods and was entering commands into its terminal. The Sentinel ignored it and glanced at the terminal that was next to the pod in front of it. Without touching anything he simply looked at the readouts on the screen. Surely that is not correct, he thought, horrified. Have you really been in that wretched pod for almost five thousand years, living in an imaginary world? Your life signs barely register! Is it even possible for you to come back to the real world, or are you too frail to step outside and look into the sky? Do you even remember what the real world is like? The Sentinel looked around with a growing feeling of horror. If all of you are on the verge of death, unable to live in the real world, then what hope does mankind have? Even if we are able to save you from the swarms and can somehow repair your bodies, that will not help if your minds are gone. Are you even willing to live in reality, or have you become slaves to that which is not real?