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Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
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A very interesting premise this universe. Mankind invented sentient robots to serve them but then became extinct, leaving all the robots behind. The main character is an unemployed (obviously) sex bot, which brings up some very unusual social problems.

Some clever stuff here and I think I found the inventiveness of the worldbuilding more interesting that the actual story. Nowhere else have I see flora and fauna referred to as 'solar powered, self replicating green goo', and 'self replicating pink goo'.

Not bad but I do not think I am invested enough to read the sequel.
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Reading Progress

June 18, 2013 – Shelved as: to-read
June 18, 2013 – Shelved
November 8, 2013 – Shelved as: science-fiction
June 4, 2021 – Started Reading
June 4, 2021 – Shelved as: 2021-bookshelf-clearance
June 4, 2021 – Shelved as: audio-books
June 4, 2021 – Shelved as: library
June 4, 2021 – Shelved as: read-in-2021
June 7, 2021 –
0% "Slow start but this is starting to get interesting."
June 18, 2021 –
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June 23, 2021 – Finished Reading

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