From the (Library e-)Bookshelf: Hard Reboot

I happened to look in the right direction at the right time to see Tor was publishing a piece of science fiction titled Hard Reboot by Django Wexler. Cover illustration and blurb alike promised “giant robots,” and human-piloted robots no less; I was well interested. Perhaps a more precocious viewer than some of Robotech in its first years on the air, I eked out eight years after it wasn’t on TV any more with its spinoff novels. While I did emerge from that decade to find a remaining handful of organized fans ready to put down the novels and their assorted inventions intended to justify things to a more critical audience (even as a good many other people in the English-language anime fandom now dismissed the series altogether), I had built up a considerable amount of suspension of disbelief towards that particular piece of fantastic technology called “mecha.” I still have to accept, though, that a good many other people don’t have anywhere near as much padding against just brushing the concept off. The apparent novelty of the new title combined with my long-standing general interest, then, to have me get around to looking for it. It turned up in an ebook search for what seemed a low price, but before I “jumped on the sale” I thought to check the ebook lending service offered by my library, and it just happened to turn up there too.
( Some assumptions rebooted )