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 Saturn's Children - Charles Stross
Newest Review: ... of providing sexual gratification: conditioned to become hopelessly aroused at the mere whiff of a scent of skin of a human ... more  ... male. She's passing time on Venus, doing menial or almost-menial work, just about maintaining her independent (i.e. not enslaved/indentured) status when an unpleasant incident with an aristocrat Domina and a hasty but thoughtless despatching of one of her minions put Freya in a desperate need of a quick way out. She takes a job as a courier for a mysterious Jeeves Co, but as usual, things are not as they appear.
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Saturn's Children - Charles Stross: Sexy Robots (783 words)
by - written on 11/12/08 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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My first encounter with Charles Stross was through Halting State, a William Gibson-meets-Christopher Brookmyre near-future post-cyberpunk crime caper. "Saturn's Children" is a different species within broadly the same habitat, a not-so-near-future space-opera thriller, more of a Asimov-meets-Philip K Dick-with-a-sprinkling-of-Douglas Adams. My s-f reading is a bit haphazard, but this was the first vision of the post-human world in which not only humans but all biological life is extinct and special police patrol the borders in search of self-replicating pink goo (although Lem's Cyberiad is set in a robotic world, but a much more grotesque and ... Read the complete review
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