Name: Saturn's Children
ISBN: 9780441015948

Charles Stross

Following the extinction of humankind in the twenty-third century, leaving behind only androids, femmebot Freya Nakamichi 47 accepts a job to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars, unaware that some extremely powerful and ruthless humanoids will stop at nothing to possess the package and its contents.

A Space Opera

Saturn's Children

Gavin

Morbid, playful. Robots emancipated by our death fall into slaving each other. Stross’ science makes it: he defamiliarises ordinary human conditions (e.g. water is just another arbitrary compound to them, and the emphasis on, well, time that fiction about humans finds it hard to do without is off), he focusses on the many many vagaries of spaceflight (“The dirty truth is that space travel is shit…”), and offers a harsh, clean sociology (“Architecture and economics are the unacknowledged products of planetography”)...
 
Prose is hard to describe: there’s definitely a Douglas Adams twinkle in there, but it’s buried beneath hard science, sexual complexity and glib lifts (“that corner of me which is forever Juliette”). His society’s accidental oligarchy is dissatisfying; the plot’s repetitive and disintegrates towards the end. Still cool, obtrusive. 

(The cover of my copy wasn't anywhere near as hideous as that ^ one.)

Mike Pearce

Bloody good book, thoroughly enjoyed this space based robot sex novel. I wasn't sure what to expect when I read the synopsis on BoingBoing, but now I'm glad I read it. Lots of science-y bits to keep the geeks amongst us amused and a fair twist at the end. If you get the hardback, don't look at the photo of the author, it's hard to take the sex-scenes seriously if you do (as serious as you can take inter-robot-romance).

Levi B

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Chris Wilcox

Jeff James

Science fiction-roman. Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package

Saturn's Children A Space Opera

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