Honestly Serious, Ive discussed various science fiction texts in lectures and seminars with groups of postgraduate English students and well published lecturers who arent anywhere near as pedantic or picky as you. I wonder if you actually get any enjoyment from anything, life must be a constant string of disappointments if you approach it as a hypercritic.

That is one strange thing. I enjoy books despite the fact they are flawed. Some people actually enjoy finding flaws but I have the problem I cant avoid finding them :shrug:. TBH hes really going out on a limb with the writing, giving a lot of detail that most wouldnt put into their books. It may be a novel, but there are other ways of enjoying them than purely as a story. The detail makes it interesting on a technological and scientific basis so I can almost treat it as a scientific paper too.

Would you make a remotely controlled robot that links the people inside them on a full memory basis? Or that the operators feel excessive pain when the robot is damaged?

In the first issue it spreads what one knows to them all, this isnt a good security principle, as is proven in the book. Capture one and suck them dry for information works both ways, these people are incredibly vulnerable.

With the second a single person getting their robot damaged will cause splash on everyone, which will make them more vulnerable. At best you want it regulated down with a maximum pain cap. Possibly even worse is empathic issues, one person experiencing overwhelming shock or feeling angry can result in a cascade to everyone freezing or becoming violent. Groups become violent in riots without the electronics, as depicted in the book.

What happens when the Space Invaders later drop in to take over the planet?