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ISBN13
9780857662613
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Angry Robot
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Sider
416
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Tykkelse
21 mm
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Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.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, little 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 the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed... Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.File Under: Science Fiction [ Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation ]
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Ex Machina meets Spielberg's AI in this Locus and Kitshcie-award nominated hard science fiction debut.
"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 did not disappoint. It is a fantastic adventure story that carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never boring." - Cory Doctorow
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MADELINE ASHBY is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. Her short fiction has appeared in Nature, FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium, and Escape Pod. Her other essays and criticism have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity, and Tor.com.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN13
9780857662613
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Angry Robot
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Sider
416
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Tykkelse
21 mm
Forfatter
Cover design or artwork by