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Title: Service Model
Author: TCHAIKOVSKY ADRIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 11/06/2024
Imprint: TOR UK
Price: $36.99
Publishing status: Active
<b>Task List Item No.1 – Become self-aware . . .</b>
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?
<b>Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky</b>
<b>‘A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’ – Patrick Ness
‘Dizzyingly inventive’ – <i>T</i><i>he Guardian</i>
‘Tchaikovsky’s world-building is some of the best in modern sci-fi’ – <i>New Scientist</i></b>
ISBN: 9781035045679
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 384
Edition: 01