Service Model
A charming tale of robot self-discovery from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning author of Children o
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 384
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781035045662
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Tchaikovsky, Adrian
329,-
<p><b>Task List Item No.1 – Become self-aware . . .</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 t