Annie Bot: A Washington Post Best Science Fiction Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and NPR. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.
"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." -- Esquire
"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." -- New Scientist
For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard.
She's learning, too.
Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?
"Annie Bot is a book to hold close to your heart when the walls start closing in." -- Washington Post
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Wheres the line that determines if someones human or not? What defines humanity? The ability to love, or the ability to leave?
First, OUCH. Like, big OUCH. So many deep cuts about living to please someone else which isn't exclusively a robot trait.
I was hoping for / expecting a robot uprising, but I feel that might have taken away from the point of the book which was more about what it really means to be human (a human women at that).
It felt so real and so close to home.
Doug needed a companion after the his divorce. ( Annie look like the ex)
Annie was program to do things for Doug like cleaning, sex and make sure he was always happy. I really felt bad for Annie for the abuse she was going thru.
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