Book Review

Claimed by The Machine by Emily Tilton

First of all, you’re welcome.

Claimed by The Machine is a sci-fi erotic novella about some aliens who discover human beings, go to a brothel, and have buttsecks. They are not actually machines, but rather they are constructed out of organic material and I know this because machines don’t produce that volume of semen.

So anyway, this book takes place in the distant future. Some aliens, who apparently are non corporeal and function like a hive mind, discover human beings. In order to figure out what the shit humans are up to, part of the hive mind detaches himself from the group (I guess?) and designates himself Alpha. He occupies peoples’ minds (without them knowing) and observes their thoughts. He comes to the conclusion that human beings are all about “sex-intertwined-with-power” because that’s all people think about.

I don’t know. I think about chips a lot. Like in an average week I definitely think more about chips, the acquisition of chips, and the consumption of chips way more than I think about sex, much less “sex-intertwined-with-power.”

Thinking about this made me do a little self-inventory, and I decided that if aliens scanned my brain they’d basically receive the following in order:

A bowl of guacamole with tortilla chips.

Charile Kelly from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia is looking wild-eyed while in front of a murder boardA kitten falls asleep sitting upThree glasses of wineA little girl sobs and bangs on a windowA headshot of Stephen Amell from Arrow

I guess thinking about Stephen Amell is kinda like thinking about sex, but honestly sometimes I just wonder how he gets rid of his panda eyes from all the makeup he wears on Arrow. I haven’t mastered that yet. Sometimes Monday mornings look rough, you know?

Anyway, if aliens read my brain, and immediately didn’t assume earth was at war with something called “patriarchal bullshit,” they most definitely would be saying, “take me to your guacamole.”

But apparently in the future everyone just thinks about going to Bone Town.

So the aliens take over this long abandoned factory where they build themselves organic android bodies with huge penises because …I don’t know.  And they’re blue. So I guess the person out there who was looking for erotic Blue Man Group fanfic got their wish.

So the blue aliens split into individual identities, Alpha, Beta, Gamma and…I don’t know. Maybe his name was Steve. Then they contact humanity and The People In Charge of humanity decide the best way to greet the first sentient life form we’ve come across in the entire galaxy is to take them to a brothel.

Cuz apparently everyone does just think about sex.

So the go to the best brothel ever, The Guesthouse on Magisteria, where all the women are trained submissives. The heroine, Sala, is like the head sex worker in charge.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Steve get off their space ship and all the sex workers are like “oh no, they’ll kill us with their giant blue penises!” (because of course they’re naked) but Sala is like “NO LADIES. We need to do this for INTERGALACTIC DIPLOMACY.”

Then the blue aliens have sex with the women which involves spanking and whipping and all of that because … I don’t know.

Like, I intellectually understand the intersection between pain and pleasure but I think because my body doesn’t respond to pain normally, and is in pain a lot of the time, I don’t really empathize with how being whipped is sexy. I’d be the shittiest submissive ever, mostly because, sorry Kingsley, my central nervous system is like way showing you up on the inflicting pain and terror thing. You can drop the tawse now, because you’re just splattering my guacamole.

Anyway there’s more sex in more positions and with more people and the whole thing culminates with anal sex that saves the universe. FUCKING YOUR ASS SAVING YOUR LIFE PART DEUX. (Who knew we’d get that a second time in twelve years?) Or something. My eyes were kind of glazed at that point.

Oh and Sala and Alpha fall in love in the three hours they’re busy putting tab A into slots B, C, and D.

So I guess if you picked up this book looking for actual intergalactic diplomacy and encounters of the third kind (are encounters of the fourth kind anal?) then… what the fuck did you type into your Amazon search bar?

But if you want to read about giant blue space penises, then go for it.

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Claimed by the Machine by Emily Tilton

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  1. Kim Moore says:

    Funniest shit I will read all week, and it’s only Monday! 🙂

  2. Alberthe says:

    I love bad reviews <3 The + in F+ is just cruel – like giving a student F+ for spelling their name correctly on a test 😉

  3. Nicola Rose says:

    This might be the best review I’ve ever read!

  4. The whole machine-plus-organic-material part makes me think of the Terminator. Except this one is programmed for anal. Maybe he says, “I’ll be in the back” instead?

  5. Louise says:

    @Cathy:
    Also also, are there no female aliens?

    Took the words right out of my mouth. I read as far as “part of the hive mind detaches himself from the group (I guess?) and designates himself Alpha. He occupies peoples’ minds (without them knowing) and observes their thoughts. He comes to the conclusion” and thought: Oh ###, oh yawn. It’s another of those writers who think that all living things are male unless proven otherwise. Or, in linguist-speak, masculine is the unmarked gender.

  6. Okay, the review had me in tears and the comments are making it worse. This is the best. I feel bad about commenting on a negative review (though there is the hopeful “+” tacked on), so I am buying this regardless. Supporting a fellow writer and all. I just had to say, this is the best thing I’ve read in forever. THANKS!

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