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VN : the first machine dynasty by Ashby, Madeline is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 motherвЂTMs 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 sheвЂTMs 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. File Under: Science Fiction [ Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation ] "Ashby's debut is a fantastic adventure story that carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never boring." - Cory Doctorow "Picks up where Blade Runner left off and maps territories Ridley Scott barely even glimpsed. vN might just be the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off with the Three Laws." - Peter Watts VN fus

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Ashby, Madeline
Publisher
Angry Robot
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780857662620
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating
3.9 / 5 (498 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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