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Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024

This program is read by Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.

To fix the world they must first break it, further.

Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.

When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

©2024 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2024 Macmillan Audio Science Fiction Humorous Robotics Murder Adventure Thought-Provoking Technology Witty Funny Crime Hard Science Fiction

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“With humor, heart, and hope balancing out the decay, this glimpse of the future is sure to win fans.”—Publishers Weekly
Philosophical Depth • Witty Humor • Excellent Character Voices • Thought-provoking Themes • Unique Perspective

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Wonderful story, wonderful language, wonderful narration. This book masterfully combines sardonic wit, black comedy, and starkly cautionary, if heavy-handed, prophesying of human greed and ignorance, reflected in the very near future results of profit over ecology & intelligent limitation on AI. I would have liked it more if it was not so frighteningly likely.

Humor, dark and foreboding. Quite timely.

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Though it deals with the end of the world and has its sad moments, the book manages to keep things sarcastic and even funny, while still being thought-provoking. I enjoyed it a lot

One of the best sci-fi books I’ve read in recent years

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There is no Beatrice, but it felt like a version of Inferno, with each chapter a concentric circle. or Milton’s Paradise Lost, with Satan, and his fallen angels tempting Adam and Eve.

Did I just listen to some version of Dante’s Inferno for robots?

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Entertaining and fun story read really well by the author! Great introduction to the risks of AI!

Robot fun and adventure

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The storytelling in this book is really incredible, and the serious message of the book is told in a way that is lighthearted and entertaining. Very enjoyable.

An engaging, funny, and poignant read

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