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Saturn's Children (Paperback)

by Charles Stross (Author)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Ace (MM); Reprint edition (Jun 30 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441017312
ISBN-13: 978-0441017317
Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 223 g

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #32,047 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sex oozes from every page of this erotic futuristic thriller. In a far-future class-driven android society, most of the populace are slave-chipped and owned by wealthy aristos. When low-caste but unenslaved android Freya offends an aristo and needs to get off-world, she takes a courier position with the mysterious Jeeves Corporation, but the job turns out to have dangers of its own. Designed as a pleasure-module, Freya isn't quite as obsolete as she could be, as androids have sex with each other incessantly. Hugo-winner Stross (Halting State) has a deep message of how android slavery recapitulates humanity's past mistakes, but he struggles to make it heard over the moans and gunshots. Readers nostalgic for the SF of the '60s will find much that's familiar (including Freya's jumpsuit-clad form on the cover), but that doesn't quite compensate for the flaws. (July)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book., Oct 19 2008

By	D. Arsenault - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Saturns Children (Hardcover)

Some how Stross has managed to combine a silly space opera starring a sexbot with hard sci-fi and make it work. The result is a book that is at times funny and at times very dark and depressing. Don't let the embarrassing cover and the some what silly plot fool you, Stross tackles some very serious topics in this novel. It all results in a story that has some depth to it but remains a fun read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost there, Nov 24 2009

By	Cristian Tibirna (Qc, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I discovered Charles Stross recently (well, relative my (too) long history on Earth, he [i]started[/i] recently) but I learned to enjoy his movie-like stories, with Halting State definitely taking the palm.

Yet, Saturn's Children didn't quite make it for me, at least not like the others. I even read Iron Sunrise before Singularity Sky and I still liked each separately and both together better than Saturn's Children.

Well, I should be honest and start by saying that I think my judgment on this book to be highly subjective, more so than what I use to utter.

Yes, I can get Stross' (masterfully achieved) attempt to emulate Asimov and Heinlein. I can identify Asimov's linearity in the plot, relative scarcity of characters and of characters' characters. It's oh so endearing to find here Heinlein's ideas about a solar system economy based on gravity gradients. And these I liked very much, both at a basic emotional level and as an intellectual exercise.

But sex robots with sentiments? The fudged over motivation of the droid slave society issued from the death humankind? Well, I believe the ideas have high value but it seems like the author was bullied (by his editor?) into finishing faster and thus the treatment of these ideas lacks Stross-like depth.

But all in all, it was a great movie and I'd heart seeing it soon in a theater nearby.

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