Cover of Service ModelB+
FinishedAugust 3, 2024
GradeB+
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherTor Books, 2024
★ Review · August 3, 2024

Service Model

by Adrian Tchaikovsky


I thought this was a fun, original story. I didn't like the preaching at the end of the book, but overall it was fun and interesting.

Publisher Description

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Where this fits · 2024 reading log
Book 35 of 2024 · the 12th Science Fiction read of the year.