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Finished reading Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross. It was nominated for a Hugo, so I figured it would be worth a read. It starts out as Freya Nakamichi-47, an android designed to serve as a femme bot for humans (humans, who are, unfortunately, completely extinct), finds herself broke and in need of escape, as she has just managed to offend a powerful member of aristocracy. She is offered a courier job, and that’s when adventure starts. In more general terms, the book is about the structure of android (and human) society and free will, among other things. It’s not a bad book, though I couldn’t get quite as immersed in it as I would have liked. I think the trouble was that I couldn’t care about any of the characters. I don’t think this was because they were all androids. I think it’s because none of them were really interesting enough. It wasn’t a bad robot story; I just don’t think it was good enough to be a Hugo nominee (it didn’t win, in case you were wondering).

I think I need to dilute my fiction reading with some non-fiction. I need something dense with no conversations.