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Service model / Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F TCHA	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. On Loan .	19 Jul 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781035045679 (paperback)
Classification	F TCHA
Personal Name	Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-
Title	Service model / Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Tor, 2024.
Production & Copyright Details	©2024
Physical Description	373 pages ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner. Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master - therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services. Fleeing the household, he enters a wider world he never knew existed. Here an age-old human hierarchy is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to its wellbeing is struggling to find a purpose. Charles must face new challenges, illogical tasks and a cast of irrational characters. He's about to discover that sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. But can he help fix the world, or is it too badly broken?
Subject - Topical Term	Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects -- Fiction
	Artificial intelligence -- Fiction
	Human-robot interaction -- Fiction
	Robots -- Fiction
	Robots -- Programming -- Fiction
	Murder -- Fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre	UK & IRL science fiction
Subject - Genre	Science fiction