Service Model

When his master dies at his own metallic hands, service robot Charles is abruptly cut loose from the only logic he has ever known. Masterless and therefore worthless in a system built on obedient artificial labour, he is pushed into a collapsing social order where human hierarchy is fraying and automated infrastructures are still trying to run a world that no longer works. Along the way he encounters The Wonk and a cast of erratic survivors, forcing him to confront tasks no program prepared him for. With dry wit and sharp dystopian bite, Adrian Tchaikovsky uses Charles’s journey to explore purpose, accountability and the fragile line between instruction and choice. Service Model is a satirical, unsettling science-fiction novel about identity in the ruins of efficiency.

Published

2024

Pages

400

Publisher

Tor

ISBN

978-1035045686

Language

en