Review: Stross C, “Saturn’s Children”, Science Fiction (Orbit: 2008)
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Freya has a problem. She is a perfectly designed concubine robot, designed not only to pleasure human beings but to take enjoy their pleasure. Unfortunately, the last of humans died out 200 years ago, 60 years before she was unboxed. Now she lives in a dystopic interplanetary society built by robots who were designed to be slaves and in which she has no place. Yet Freya’s place in things may turn out to be much greater than it seems.
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