Bot Wars is a look into the future in which robots play an important role.  As they do now, robots are used for everything, but even more so.  They were affordable and so many people had them.  Kind of similar to cars and computers now.  The custom was to work the robots until they wore out and then dispose of them.  Then someone came up with the idea and invention of a ‘think chip’ which was implanted into each robot.  This enabled the robot to become more human.  Almost too human.  Now they had opinions and were demanding civil ‘rights.’  Many people wanted the think chips removed, but not the robots.  The country became divided and war ensued: one side wanting the old robots back and one side supporting the new robots.  The government sided with the first.  In this story, the small family of a father and two sons support the bots.  The oldest son lost his leg in the war and the father has long since disappeared since going to fight.  Apparently the long-lost father is the leader of the rebellion of the bots.  During the fighting he became severely injured and was repaired by the bots using bot parts and is now mostly bot himself.  The relationships in the story are interesting, the politics are maddening, and the science fiction abilities are fascinating.  The story line moves along quickly, and the characters are well developed.  My only criticism is the repeated use of the words ‘wrenched’  and ‘geared.’  Old words with new meaning.  This disrupted the otherwise smooth language.