Pre-order Service Model and submit your receipt to get the digital short story “Human Resources” emailed to you on 6.4.24!
“Human Resources” is set in the same world as Service Model, but takes place long before the novel starts. With a sardonically whimsical tone only Adrian Tchaikovsky could pull off, he explores what human resources means in a world less and less reliant on humans.
Murderbot meets Redshirts in Service Model, a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.
Fleeing the household they enter a wider world where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Coming 6.4.24