{"product_id":"vn-the-first-machine-dynasty-1-9780857662620","title":"VN The First Machine Dynasty 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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 she alone can kill humans without failsafing...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFile Under\u003c\/i\u003e: Science Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e [Von Neumann Sisters  Fail Safe Fail  The Squid \u0026amp; the Swarm  Robot Nation]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Cory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you have been missing the kind of thought-provoking-yet-exciting stories about artificial creatures that only come along once in a while, \u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth grabbing. It's disturbing and sometimes upsetting — but the ending is a giant insane weird thrill that makes the whole thing pay off.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Charlie Jane Andres for\u003ci\u003e io9.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Picks up where \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e 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.) \u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e might just be the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off with the Three Laws.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Peter Watts, author of \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"VN fuses cyberpunk with urban fantasy to produce something wholly new.  Thre's a heavy kicker in every chapter.  Zombie robots, vampire robots, robots as strange and gnarly as human beings.  A page-turning treat.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Rudy Rucker, author of the WARE TETRALOGY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ashby's debut novel is brimming with ideas...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e-SFX Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling adventure story with a well-developed cast of both humans and vNs, which challenges the meaning of being a person without ever being preachy about it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Steve Jones, \u003ci\u003eTerror Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Watkins Media Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528242340183,"sku":"9780857662620","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857662620.jpg?v=1731870910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vn-the-first-machine-dynasty-1-9780857662620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}