01696cam a2200337 i 4500 1329156292 TxGeo 20240606120000.0 240304s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024009338 9781250290281 hbk. 1250290287 hbk. (OCoLC)1393204264 TxGeo rda Tchaikovsky, Adrian, author. Service model / Adrian Tchaikovsky. First edition. New York, NY : Tor Publishing Group, 2024. 373 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. 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 they never knew existed, 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. Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming"-- Provided by publisher. 20240614. Murder Fiction. Artificial intelligence Fiction. Robots Fiction. Science fiction. Humorous fiction. QS5