Description
Humanity is dying. Jobs once held by humans are now handled by robots. Even the jobs of supervising the robots were eliminated to streamline the process. Humanity is entirely dependent on the mechanic services of the robots. A glitch leads to one robot murdering its owner. Charles is sent by Majordomo to diagnostics, and the robot obeys. Now, no longer employed by his dead master, the undesignated valet, formally known as Charles, notices that things are not well in the world. When he finally understood that diagnostics would not find and solve his glitch and was being sent to be decommissioned, the undesignated Service Model fled.
Service Model is a laugh-out-loud cautionary tale by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If one takes C3PO from Star Wars and combines it with Data from Star Trek, then throws in some Marvin from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the resulting robot might be as absurd as Tchaikovsky’s latest novel. Dystopia has never been so funny. Tchaikovsky’s mechanical characters have more personality than most humans. But be warned, this is not a novel to read in a quiet library or when someone next to you is trying to sleep. If you don’t laugh while reading this novel, you might be a robot.
