Annie Droid

by Robert James Warner


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 1/15/2001

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 120
ISBN : 9781587218644

About the Book

Annie Droid is a story taken from the Watcher Chronicals by Robert James Warner, the author, who was privileged to present this story to the world public as a fiction story. The Watchers are a human race from deep space who found earth and conquered it without spilling one drop of earther blood, telling the world that they were on earth only to 'watch' and study the peoples of earth.

The Watchers are a tall, bald headed, telepathic people who have achieved remarkably high levels of expertise in medicine, science, and high tech machines which include, among many others, teleportation and robots and androids.

The earthers find out that the Watchers will help them with their personal problems at times, although most of the requests for help are refused, the Watchers saying, "We are here only to watch."

Tom and Cindy Smith, man and wife, have a problem: Cindy insists fanatically, though she is not pregnant at the time, that her body is hers to do with as she decides including a baby in her womb, if she decides to have an abortion, whether the father agrees or not, even though the father has supplied 'one half' of the life force of the baby.

Tom insists that the father has as much right to decide the fate of a baby in the womb as the mother has, pointing out that there are 'two' principles involved in any pregnancy: conception: the fertilization of the female egg by the male sperm, and incubation: the growth of the baby in the womb, the female incubator, which a female has by an accident of birth.

Tom becomes fed up with Cindy's illogical and stupid sexist altitudes about a baby in the womb so he divorces her and goes to the Watchers, asking them if they can help him have a baby without using the womb of an earther woman. The Watchers, intrigued by such a request, agree to help Tom so they can study the effects of a baby grown in a non-human incubator on the peoples of earth.

They give Tom an a beautiful android they name Annie Droid, who is so much like a human woman it is hard to tell she is not a human woman, who has a womb and will be the mobile incubator where Tom's baby will be grown until it is born. Tom and Annie will live as husband and wife until the baby is born, then a young earther woman, Sally North, will be its wet nurse and help Tom raise the baby.

Annie Droid returns to the Watchers after the birth of Tom's baby, her job done, but there is a very big problem: Tom has fallen hopelessly in love with Annie Droid and after she leaves he slowly sinks in to the gutter with a broken heart because he can not live with a female android as man and wife, the Watchers can not allow that, and he can not live without her!

Meanwhile, Cindy, very angry at Tom for divorcing her, but feeling very guilty, goes to the Watchers too, asking them if they will make her pregnant with Tom's sperm which they decide to do. Cindy will give Tom the new baby. The Watchers decide to give Cindy an android too, a male android they name Andy Droid, who is big, blond, and beautiful, so they can study the effect of a male android lover on an earther female.

Cindy falls hopelessly in love with Andy and then the trouble starts: The Watchers tell Cindy that she must return Andy to them. The Watchers can not allow her to live any longer with an android, which Cindy refuses to accept!


About the Author

Robert James Warner was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He went to the local schools. He was drafted into the Navy on March 9th, 1944, during the 2nd World War as soon as he finished his last semester in High School. He was discharged from the Navy on June 16, 1946.

Mr. Warner went back to school, Long Beach City College, on the G.I. Bill, taking Mechanical Engineering, then he switched to journalism. After about a year and a half at City College he quit.

Mr. Warner had always been interested in writing, but he had huge handicaps to overcome: he couldn't spell (he still can't); and grammer was then and is now a mystery to him.

Mr. Warner first began to write when he was about 20.

During the next few years he wrote some songs and some poetry and some short stories, but his output was quite low.

From 1947, after Mr. Warner left City College, to 1950, he had a number of different inconsequential jobs, the longest at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where he worked in the blueprint department for eight months, then he quit and loafed awhile.

In 1950 he enlisted in the Active Naval Reserve as a WeekEnd Warrior, so he could learn seamanship and get paid doing it. He has had a life long love affair with boats (building his own) and fishing.

About three months later, the Korean War started and Mr. Warner was called back to active duty in the Navy Aircorp for a year, getting discharged in August, 1951, serving on three aircraft carriers operating off of Korea in the China Sea, bombing and strafing the communists!

After Korea, Mr. Warner went back to City College for awhile, then he got a job on a freighter as a deckhand, and made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, about 30 days round trip, hauling bulk sugar for C&H Sugar in Crocket California on the Sacramento River.

Leaving the ship in Crocket he went to Santa Rosa, California, where he washed dishes in some restaurants and got a poem published in the local newspaper, a big day in his life.

Next, he went to Yosemite, and washed some more dishes then he went home.

Mr. Warner has cleaned chicken dung from under the pens; he owned and operated his own auto wrecking yard; owned his own 2nd Store; was half owner of a Yacht Landing; speculated in Real Estate and worked at some other odd jobs, going to work for the Long Beach Fire Department in 1953 for the next 26 years, retiring in October, 1979.

Mr. Warner got married in 1961, had his son in 1963, then got divorced in 1973.

In 1974, Mr. Warner and his son, Jeff, drove to Alaska during the summer. On his return, Mr. Warner wrote his first novel.

Since 1974, Mr. Warner has written 31 novels, about 125 short stories, two Civil War books, and two poetry collections.