PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Autonomous

Annalee Newitz

$22.99

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English
Orbit Books
13 March 2018
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap medicines for those who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.

Hot on her trail is an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his indentured robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack's drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understands.

And underlying it all is one fundamental question: is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

By:  
Imprint:   Orbit Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   222g
ISBN:   9780356511221
ISBN 10:   0356511227
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for Popular Science, Wired, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She co-founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2015, and subsequently edited Gizmodo. As of 2016, she is Tech Culture Editor at the technology site Ars Technica.

Reviews for Autonomous

Something genuinely and thrillingly new Brims and bubbles over with ideas, tenderness and care; my experience of reading it was of wanting to discuss every paragraph I consumed. A brilliant, fascinating debut Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the internet Everything you'd hope for from the co-founder of io9 Holy hell. Autonomous is remarkable Thrilling


  • Short-listed for Locus Best First Novel 2018 (UK)
  • Short-listed for The John W Campbell Memorial Award 2018 (UK)

See Also