Service model / Adrian Tchaikovsky.

ISBN: 9781250290281
ISBN: 1250290287
Physical Description: 373 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
Copyright: &copy;2024

Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972- (author.).

Summary:

"To fix the world they must first break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming."-- Provided by publisher.