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About our April selection: vN

We'll be discussing vN by Madeline Ashby on Wednesday, April 30th.    But what is this book about?   Here's the summary, courtesy of Goodreads:

Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she’s learning impossible things about her clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.

 

Curious?   Well, pick up a copy of the book in our library (or ask us to inter-library loan it for you if all of our copies are checked out) and come to our discussion!

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