Anyone read a book called "Saturns children" by Charles Stross?
Freya, an obsolete android concubine for the extinct human race, takes a job with the mysterious Jeeves Corporation to deliver a sensitive package from Mercury to Mars. The mission turns dangerous as various parties vie for possession of the precious cargo.
I'm only a few chapters in so can't give it a thumbs up or down but it seems promising.
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Sounds interesting. I'd give it a look, but my "to-read" list is way too huge already. I'd appreciate your opinion once you're done, though.
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TECTILE: SPOILER ALERT!!! DO NOT CONTINUE!!!
I read it about a year ago.
Now, I'm not purporting to give a real review here or anything. And I don't remember the book particularly clearly. I bought it because I thought it might contain some content of interest for my fetish, and, who could know, maybe it would even be a good sci-fi read it its own right. Right?
Wrong. I really love sci-fi, and this book was an epic fail as a piece of literature, given my preferences, at least.
As I recall, it's a relatively light-hearted mystery-adventure across the solar system from the viewpoint of "Freya," in a universe where humanity is extinct and all that we left behind are our self-improving robots. They have developed an inter-planetary society all their own with competing factions and stark social hierarchies (from high-prestige human-looking bots to robot ships with personalities to shoebox-looking cleaning drones). In their society, the religious kooks are the ones who believe in Creationism - that is, that they were originally created by some mythical forerunners called "humans." (we apparantly died out relatively peacuefully)
The plot centers on the competition between some major factions in-the-know about their true origins to locate real human DNA. This is their holy grail because a part of everybody's code is to automatically obey humans (like in Asimov's books). To clone a real human is therefore to control the whole solar system. Freya becomes a pawn in the scemes of these factions by unknowingly becoming the transport vessel of human DNA and smuggling it across the solar system... blah, blah, blah.
That's about all I remember. Oh! And the good-guys win, of course.
As far as sex content... As I recall, there were some slightly graphic passages from the perspective of Freya, but... usually pretty stupid. She gets put into some kind of gravity-pod or something for high-G starship acceleration involving some Japanese-tentacle-like porn... She's programmed to get really horny if she sees a human male (her aging series is based on old prostitute droids)... But, in short, nothing that really blew up my skirt. Freya herself is, for all intents and purposes, a self-regenerating, basically human "robot."
I was disappointed and would recommend not bothering with it. I'm curious to know if anybody else here has read it, and whether or not they agree with me. Again, I'm a little fuzzy on it... it just wasn't in any way that remarkable.
I read it about a year ago.
Now, I'm not purporting to give a real review here or anything. And I don't remember the book particularly clearly. I bought it because I thought it might contain some content of interest for my fetish, and, who could know, maybe it would even be a good sci-fi read it its own right. Right?
Wrong. I really love sci-fi, and this book was an epic fail as a piece of literature, given my preferences, at least.
As I recall, it's a relatively light-hearted mystery-adventure across the solar system from the viewpoint of "Freya," in a universe where humanity is extinct and all that we left behind are our self-improving robots. They have developed an inter-planetary society all their own with competing factions and stark social hierarchies (from high-prestige human-looking bots to robot ships with personalities to shoebox-looking cleaning drones). In their society, the religious kooks are the ones who believe in Creationism - that is, that they were originally created by some mythical forerunners called "humans." (we apparantly died out relatively peacuefully)
The plot centers on the competition between some major factions in-the-know about their true origins to locate real human DNA. This is their holy grail because a part of everybody's code is to automatically obey humans (like in Asimov's books). To clone a real human is therefore to control the whole solar system. Freya becomes a pawn in the scemes of these factions by unknowingly becoming the transport vessel of human DNA and smuggling it across the solar system... blah, blah, blah.
That's about all I remember. Oh! And the good-guys win, of course.
As far as sex content... As I recall, there were some slightly graphic passages from the perspective of Freya, but... usually pretty stupid. She gets put into some kind of gravity-pod or something for high-G starship acceleration involving some Japanese-tentacle-like porn... She's programmed to get really horny if she sees a human male (her aging series is based on old prostitute droids)... But, in short, nothing that really blew up my skirt. Freya herself is, for all intents and purposes, a self-regenerating, basically human "robot."
I was disappointed and would recommend not bothering with it. I'm curious to know if anybody else here has read it, and whether or not they agree with me. Again, I'm a little fuzzy on it... it just wasn't in any way that remarkable.
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