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Machinehood (Paperback)
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Loot Price R245
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Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this "clever...gritty"
(Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings) science fiction thriller
about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a
near future dominated by the gig economy-from Hugo Award nominee
S.B. Divya. Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special
forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front
of her. It's, 2095 and people don't usually die from violence.
Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them
stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence
in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect
against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs
enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing
process. All that changes when Welga's client is killed by The
Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group that has
simultaneously attacked several major pill funders. The Machinehood
operatives seem to be part human, part machine, something the world
has never seen. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production
in one week. Global panic ensues as pill production slows and many
become ill. Thousands destroy their bots in fear of a strong AI
takeover. But the US government believes the Machinehood is a cover
for an old enemy. One that Welga is uniquely qualified to fight.
Welga, determined to take down the Machinehood, is pulled back into
intelligence work by the government that betrayed her. But who are
the Machinehood, and what do they really want? A "fantastic,
big-idea thriller" (Malka Older, Hugo Award finalist for The
Centenal Cycle series) that asks: if we won't see machines as
human, will we instead see humans as machines?
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