Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Murderbot Diaries meets In the Lives of Puppets in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. To fix the world they must first break it – further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labour and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot then also discovers they can do something else they never did before: they can run away. Fleeing the household, they enter a wider world they never knew existed: where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming . . . Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky ‘A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’ Patrick Ness ‘Dizzyingly inventive’ The Guardian ‘Tchaikovsky’s world-building is some of the best in modern sci-fi’ New Scientist

Service Model

this is the funniest shit ive read in a book so far

Inside his decision-making software there were two subroutines in the shape of wolves, and one insisted that he stay, and the other insisted that he could not stay. Neither of which seemed to be natural behaviour for wolves, but Uncharles could only assume this was another aspect of his undiagnosed defect

Service Model quotes

Join the club