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Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Publisher's summary

Read by the author, Adrian Tchaikovsky.

The Murderbot Diaries meets In the Lives of Puppets in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Task List 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.

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?

©2024 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

Intelligent, funny, ultimately heart-breaking, and unforgettable (Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima)

Picking up an Adrian Tchaikovsky book is proof you love your brain and want it to be happy (John Scalzi, author of Starter Villain)

One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction (Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and Fractal Noise)

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