- Fiction, Science fiction
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware 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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, raw and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781035045686
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“On activation each morning Charles' first duty was to check his master's travel arrangements for the day.”
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.
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