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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

2024373 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2024
first published
  • 2024Pan Macmillan · ENGISBN 9781035045679
  • 2024Pan Macmillan · ENGISBN 9781035045662
  • 2024Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · ENGISBN 9781250290281
  • 2024Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · ENGISBN 9781250290298
  • 2024Tor · 373 pagesISBN 9781250290304
  • 2025Pan Macmillan · ENGISBN 9781035045686

Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, 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. Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master and, in a society reliant on artificial labour, worthless. Fleeing the household, he enters a world he never knew existed. Here, an age-old human hierarchy is disintegrating, and a robot ecosystem devoted to its well-being is struggling to find a purpose. Charles must face new challenges, illogical tasks and a cast of irrational characters. He'll discover that all it takes to overcome the limits of your programming is a nudge. But can he help fix the world, or is it too badly broken?

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