In the post-human future postulated by Stross, humanity's self-aware creations have evolved into a distinct and autonomous "race" with its own evolving society, complete with rigid class hierarchies, oppression, and of course, conspiracies. Unfortunately, the human race went extinct just before she was created, leaving Freya with, literally, no reason to live. So let me spoil the secret for you: Saturn's Children is basically Charles Stross writing Heinlein fanfic.įreya (get it?) Nakamichi 47 was designed as a pleasure slave for her human creators. I've seen a lot of reviews that focus on that boobilicious cover, like they just can't understand how this could have been published in 2008. So when Freya offends one particularly nasty Aristo, she's forced to take a dangerous courier job off-planet. A rigid caste system keeps the Aristos, a vindictive group of humanoids, well in control of the lower, slave-chipped classes. In Saturn's Children, Freya is an obsolete android concubine in a society where humans haven't existed for hundreds of years.
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