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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

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9781035045679
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3504567-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, FICTION / Science Fiction / Humorous, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Humorous fiction, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic