![]() ![]() She takes a job as courier for the Jeeves Co., and then graduates to spying for them. Freya is trying to retain her autonomy in this grim society. There are uber-rich aristos who have essentially enslaved 90% of the other beings. Since this society was modeled on that of their deceased creators, it is intrinsically flawed. She was activated long after the humans she was designed for were all dead, so she and her siblings now try to make their way in a society that consists entirely of other forms of mechanical life. She is a complex human sized android model that was originally designed as a sex-bot. This brings us to our protagonist, Freya. These range from simple automata to complex androids with artificial intelligence modeled on human minds. The inheritors of the solar system are the various forms of artificial life that humanity created. This is in a literal sense, as the human race has went extinct well before the novel takes place. It’s also appropriately considered a post-human novel. “Saturn’s Children” by Charles Stross is subtitled “A Space Opera” and it lives up to this description. ![]()
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