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Autonomous

Annalee Newitz

2017291 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Little, Brown Book Group Limited · ENGISBN 9780356511207
  • 2017Tor · 300 pagesISBN 9781250174680
  • 2017Tor · 304 pagesISBN 9780765392077
  • 2018Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 291 pages · ENGISBN 9780356511221
  • 2019Minotauro · 320 pagesISBN 9788445006290
  • 2018Tor Books · 304 pagesISBN 9780765392084
  • 2017Tor Books · 298 pagesISBN 9780765392091
  • 2017Macmillan Audio

When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack’s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand. And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

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