Service Model - Signed First Edition
Service Model - Signed First Edition
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 06/06/2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Tor) in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 384 pages
234 x 153mm | 0g
Signed First Edition Hardback
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?
Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky:
A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human“ Patrick Ness
˜Dizzyingly inventive“ The Guardian