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Saturn's Children | 
| Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 23721
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0441015948
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780441015948
ASIN: 0441015948
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinctleaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.
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 Excellent offering from Stross December 31, 2008
H. J. Romero
If John Varley bears the mantle of Heinlein for young adult fiction, Charlie Stross can at least be given credit for creating the essentially perfect homage to Heinlein's crazy years. Stross has definitely tapped into whatever Heinlein was thinking about when he wrote such standards as Friday, I Will Fear No Evil and practically any of the later Lazarus Long family series.
Saturn's Children moves along at a brisk clip, and the heroine-android stays perfectly in character throughout. While especially reminiscent of Heinlein's Friday, Saturn's Children is its own unique story, filled with Stross's usual cornucopia of imaginative, inventive concepts and gadgets, and will in no way disappoint fans of Stross's previous works.
Saturn's Children is a tale of androids and robots seeking out their living in the aftermath of humanity's extinction. It spans most of the planets in the solar system in its telling. Settings include Mars, Mercury and the moons of Jupiter, each more urban metal noir than the last. Stross makes no bones about the ugly truth of interplanetary travel, assuming no miraculous advances in drive technology or the costs of such voyages, and portrays such travel appropriately.
All in all, an excellent effort on behalf of Stross.
 I love the premise of Saturn's Children December 8, 2008
Stelo Bona (Califonia USA)
I happen to love the cheese-cake cover. I especially like the situations were the robots are trying to cope and survive with the loss of their human programmers. My only complaint is the plot; many times it seemed to have no direction. I'd like to see a second book on Freya's new world adventures.
A different kind of post-human SF October 17, 2008
M. P. Hills (Melbourne, Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Saturn's Children marks Stross's serious progression as a writer.
He's doing far more advanced tricks with plot and exposition than in his previous novels.
The way he drops in the back story, such that when the lead is called a "robot" you installing know it's like using the N-word.
Oh, yeah - what's this book about? It's a different kind of post-human novel; mainly because humanity has died off. But before they did so (and potentially _because_ they did so) they created a race of intelligent robots to help them colonise the solar-system.
Robots created to serve man, and left floundering when their masters are gone, but unable to stop the course they were on.
As Stross says: "when the last human died, human civilisation barely stopped from lunch".
There are robots of every shape, size and variety. And the way they 'connect' is hilarious! Some very interesting depictions of space docking.
It's a rollicking tale, but I kept pausing to admire Stross's prose style.
All I want now is a sequel!
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