{"product_id":"vn-isbn-9780857665423","title":"vN","description":"Amy is a Von Neumann humanoid - grown in a stable family environment, with her robot mother and human father. But alone of all her kind, known as the von Neumanns, her human-protecting failsafe has stopped working. Soon she is on the run from the law, and worse - everyone's after her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her.\"\u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e did not disappoint. It is a fantastic adventure story that carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never boring.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Cory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you have been missing the kind of thought-provoking-yet-exciting stories about artificial creatures that only come along once in a while, \u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth grabbing. It's disturbing and sometimes upsetting — but the ending is a giant insane weird thrill that makes the whole thing pay off.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Charlie Jane Andres for\u003ci\u003e io9.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Picks up where \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e left off and maps territories Ridley Scott barely even glimpsed.  (Philip K Dick would have been at home here, but Ashby's prose is better.) \u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e might just be the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off with the Three Laws.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Peter Watts, author of \u003ci\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"VN fuses cyberpunk with urban fantasy to produce something wholly new.  Thre's a heavy kicker in every chapter.  Zombie robots, vampire robots, robots as strange and gnarly as human beings.  A page-turning treat.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Rudy Rucker, author of the WARE TETRALOGY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ashby's debut novel is brimming with ideas...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e-SFX Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003evN\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling adventure story with a well-developed cast of both humans and vNs, which challenges the meaning of being a person without ever being preachy about it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Steve Jones, \u003ci\u003eTerror Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAfter meeting Ursula K. LeGuin in the basement of the Elliott Bay Book Company, Madeline Ashby decided to start writing science fiction stories. While immigrating to Canada from the United States in 2006 , she could not work or study and joined the Cecil Street Irregulars – a genre writers’ workshop founded by Judith Merril – instead. Since then she has been published in \u003ci\u003eTesseracts, Flurb, Nature, Escape Pod \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She has a master’s degree in Manga and Anime and writes on such matters for \u003ci\u003ei09\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTor.com \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBoingBoing\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently she works as a strategic foresight consultant in Toronto. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewww.madelineashby.com\u003cbr\u003e twitter.com\/MadelineAshby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor hometown:\u003c\/i\u003e Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Angry Robot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233823699173,"sku":"NP9780857665423","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780857665423_e293d345-0a28-467f-b844-07e4e2f66ffd.jpg?v=1767743508","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/vn-isbn-9780857665423","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}