Service Model

A charming tale of robot self-discovery from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning author of Children of Time

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ISBN: 9781035045679
Uitgever: Tor
Verschijningsvorm: Paperback
Auteur: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Druk: 1
Pagina's: 400
Taal: Engels
Verschijningsjaar: 2024
NUR: Science fiction

Task List Item No.1 – Become self-aware . . .

Meet CharlesTM, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.

Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master – therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services. Fleeing the household, he enters a wider world he never knew existed. Here an age-old human hierarchy is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to its wellbeing is struggling to find a purpose.

Charles must face new challenges, illogical tasks and a cast of irrational characters. He’s about to discover that sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. But can he help fix the world, or is it too badly broken?