Buddy read with Karly AND J-Rex sometime in 2016 I think?I found this DAW edition with a bad/awesome cover at a used bookstore today.(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]I still like the Kinuko Craft cover best (even though Karly hates it). This was the cover I had the first time I read the book. Honestly I probably love it because of that muscular, metallic neck. SEXY. :P(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]REVIEWWhat prompted this buddy read was another BR last November, of The Mad Scientist's Dau...

This book is so beautiful and heartbreaking. I've never read anything like it. It chronicles the life of Jane, a vapid rich girl who lives in the future and doesn't really know what it is to feel anything, or how to experiance life. All that changes when she meets and falls in love with Silver, a robot programed to sing and play music. Eventually she leaves her rich lifestyle to run away with Silver to the slums to try and carve a new life for themselves. I loved this story for so many reasons.

It's unfortunate that Tanith Lee had to pass away for me to get the jolt of interest needed to read her work. The Silver Metal Lover, one of her most loved works, is a story about an immature love that blossoms into a fully realized one, and about an immature girl who cries too often and falls in love too easily but blossoms into a strong-willed, independent woman. It's a story about Jane, and her relationship with her robot lover, Silver.Were this tender novel published today, it would be shelv...

I read little sci-fi, and next to none before picking this book up, but this is by far one of the best I have read.I want to continue on and give this book a rave review to encourage you to pick this up but, honestly, I'm still salty that I lent it to a friend and she then lost it without ever reading it. Bitter af.

Decided to finally read this highly recommended sci fi. Or I guess you'd really call it a sci fi romance but it felt more speculative than many sci fi romances. It explored what is what is conciousness and who is really alive I guess. It also dealt with people's fear of AI. Which is pretty valid and currently pertinent. This is the first book I have read by this author and she has a very different style. At first it was sort of glaring but after I got started it was easy enough to read and adjus...

What an absolutely fantastic book! I can't rave enough about it. Jane is a girl in the future who meets a robotic man and then the story goes from there. I loved them together, it was so romantic. And the ending, I'm still crying! I have book #2 from the library and that is definitely the next book I'm reading. I would categorize this book as science fiction romance for both adults and young adults. Would recommend it to everyone.

Classic early SF by the Fantasy mistress. Wish she'd written more SF. Wonder if I still have a copy?Martha Wells mentions this as an influence on her "Murderbot" series:"The Silver Metal Lover was one of the first books I remember where it was actually about a human-robot relationship, where that was focus of the story. It’s a romance between a young woman and a robot and it never gets into the usual “kill all humans and take over the world” territory."https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/16/16...Gee...

BOOOO to me for not having read this young adult page turner during my teens.Well, falling in love with a robot isn't that odd. Considering that we fall in love over the Internet en masse, without having ever seen, smelled and touched the other. So lusting after a robot - especially when you're a sweet sixteen and the robot in question is Silver, a handsome fully equipped long haired brand new prototype, programmed to pleasure its buyer - seems pretty easy.So could we someday develop robots that...

A book like this only comes around once.Tanith Lee has never written so well before or after. Good but never as evocative, as real, as poignantly heart touching, as piercingly tearful.To render a character like Silver that will be, nay, shall be loved unanimously by all readers is no mean feat for an author. I shan't give away the plot for reading this, is believing.However, be prepared to read in one full seating for it was darn near impossible to put the book down.The dialogue is so real, so l...

I'm tempted to say that this is one of Lee's deepest books. Why? It seems just another YA tale of a teen angst-driven by first love, rebellion, and the adolescent desire to establish an identity. But 'coming of age' is a crapulous label for story-telling. We are all coming of age, all our lives. And a good character shows this. As for giving first love a patronizing pat on the head... there is a reason stories associate first-love with death. Because it is a kind of death. What survives after, i...

"Mother, I am in love with a robot." Excuse me while I sploosh everywhere. And then worry about the sploosh tarnishing the robot's gears and machinery. This is the story of Jane, a sixteen year old sheltered, pampered and wishy-washy young woman, who falls in love with a robot called Silver. Silver, however, is not a normal robot. He has been designed to be better than human in every way and is so lifelike that Jane never sees him as anything other than a human man, except when she is

Last year during Spooktober the lovely Heatherdoll and I read The Mad Scientist's Daughter and while I found it a beautiful tale ensconced in the insidious nature of humanity’s prejudices against anything different than themselves, she was less impressed (read her review here) owing to the fact that The Silver Metal Lover had done this same story, and better. Thus a buddy-read of same was born. Along the way we ensnared Future-Gurl in our webs. Thank you both for reading this at the same, rel...

Ok, to be honest, I did read this as a joke after finding it on the shelf at my Library (please Google the original 1982 paperback to fully appreciate). The front cover art, combined with the brilliant synopsis on the back ("He was a robot, and he could do everything a real man could do—yes, everything...”), made it almost impossible for me NOT to read this book.So, I didn’t like it. This was mostly due to (suprise!) the plot: overly dramatic, wealthy teen girl falls in love with a beautiful, hu...

The second book by Tanith Lee I read within a couple days. I listened to this on a long drive. It was enjoyable all the way through. Similar to Heinlein's Rolling Stones, or Have Spacesuit-Will Travel in the sense that they were all pulp science fiction reminiscent of the Golden Age of the genre, light-hearted, and mostly about social interaction. TL's cheesy romance works well with the soft s-f world building. She brings a heavy, warm sensuality to this story of a 16-year-old girl falling in lo...

Oh God, I don't know how to talk about this really. It kind of combines all my obsessions into one amazing book: sex, robots, love, identity and philosophical questions about what makes us human. It's not ... perfect, and it's probably the sort of thing you have to read at the right time.But, dammit, it's still my book of books.So, Jane the heroine lives in a decadent future where the rich are super rich and the poor are super poor, and the rich have everything, and suffer from ennui.And there a...

Honestly I haven't read this book since I was 16. I will be 45 soon. Isn't it funny what stays with you. This is a story that has always lingered. Always one I have meant to reread. I can't tell you the details, I can't remember if it made me happy, sad, I am not sure. But the feeling of this story has been there for me. And I know I just said that I don't know how it made me feel, but I have thought of this often. And in honor of the authors passing I decided to write this review. I don't know

I loved it. It's not a hard core sex book or anything...sure it mentions sex, but that's about it. There's the romantic quality of a "good woman" being able to give a man/robot (Silver) a soul, but it's also a story about what he does for her too. Jane basically is a young girl who doesn't understand her own feelings & for the man (robot) she loves she strips herself down to the bare basics. She gives up everything she thought defined her as a person. Her friends suck & bring to mind the saying,...

My love, my love. I will see you again.I happened to be off work today and this BR read started today so.....yeah I finished it today. I'm not very good at being alive.Now, I must admit, initially I wasn't sure about this story. Our protagonist, Jane, just seemed too vapid and inane to care about. She was 16 but incredibly immature and sheltered. Her quote unquote "friends" were a group of shallow, self absorbed narcissists, and don't even get me started on the mother. The mother, who ordered Ja...

There are far too many feels now that I've finished this. Gobbled it up like a chocolate croissant.I feel sad sad sad. Just like she said,"You see, when I stop, I break my last link with him. With my love. Yes, he’ll always be with me, but not him. I’ll be alone. I’ll be alone."I feel alone. ...This is so good. And weird. It awesomely futuristic in a way only the 80s could have imagined.This book mentions sex in some lewd manners. But really this book is about love, and personal growth, and not

One of my all-time favorite books. I read it when I was a teenager and it spoke to me about difference and love. I read it when I was a young adult and it spoke to me about the maturation of my relationship with my mother. I read it as a married woman with a pre-teen and it spoke to me about loving and letting go. That this small novel has aged so well with me speaks volumes!