Saturn's Children
by Charles Stross
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Author: Charles StrossEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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Book Review: Fembots are Hot!
Summary: 4 Stars
Freya Nakamichi is beautiful, sexy, skilled, and willing to love and serve the first human she comes across. Freya Nakamichi is a fembot who only has several problems to overcome. The biggest one is that between the time she was manufactured and placed in storage, and the time she was finally activated, the entire human race rather died off leaving her, and all the rest of the human-created robot species, to carry forward on their own. In short, Freya is an obsolete model created to fulfill a need that no longer exists. Tough sledding, even for a robot. While humanity created their robots in their own image, they also seemed to have created them with many of the same problems, issues, jealousies, avarice, insecurities, and sexual issues of humanity itself. In summary, humans may be gone now, but human problems remain and Freya has to deal with them.
Enough other reviews give the basics of this story, so let me mention some areas where this story shines. Robots as sexual servants is well represented here as well as the post-human robotic society to evolve from it. The space travel around the solar system is varied, inventive, and completely convincing. And the remnants of the failed attempt to terraform a gigantic Martian crater paint a vivid picture of the furthest reach of the frail human species and their dreams. Maybe robots really do need to become the post-humans to explore the galaxy.
There are no shortcuts or warp drives in the fictional science here. I best recommend this story for readers with an interest in robotic society in general and fembots in particular. Also Heinlein readers might find a lot to like here in the social issues explored, as well as readers looking to see a hard science view of a possible future alien society because one should always remember that robots aren't people. Prudes may be offended.
I'd give the 4.5/5 stars if I could get in that extra ?.
Summary of Saturn's Children
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct-leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.Science Fiction Books
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