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Angry Robot
21 November 2018
Series: Machine Dynasty
Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time- she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing...

File Under-Science Fiction Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation

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Illustrated by:   Reader Inof Medical Statistics Martin Bland (St George's Hospital Medical School London)
Imprint:   Angry Robot
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   323g
ISBN:   9780857662620
ISBN 10:   0857662627
Series:   Machine Dynasty
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for vN (#1 First Machine Dynasty)

vN did not disappoint. It isa fantastic adventure story that carries a slyphilosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. Itis often profound, and it is never boring. - Cory Doctorow If you have been missing the kind of thought-provoking-yet-exciting stories about artificial creatures that only come along once in a while, vN is well worth grabbing. It's disturbing and sometimes upsetting but the ending is a giant insane weird thrill that makes the whole thing pay off. Charlie Jane Andres for io9.com Picks up where Blade Runner left off and maps territories Ridley Scott barely even glimpsed. (Philip K Dick would have been at home here, but Ashby's prose is better.) vN might just be the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off with the Three Laws. Peter Watts, author of Blindsight VN fuses cyberpunk with urban fantasy to produce something wholly new. Thre's a heavy kicker in every chapter. Zombie robots, vampire robots, robots as strange and gnarly as human beings. A page-turning treat. - Rudy Rucker, author of the WARE TETRALOGY Ashby's debut novel is brimming with ideas... -SFX Magazine vN is a thrilling adventure story with a well-developed cast of both humans and vNs, which challenges the meaning of being a person without ever being preachy about it. -Steve Jones, Terror Tree


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