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Authors: Ashby, Madeline
Publisher: Watkins Media
BISAC/Subject: FIC028020, FIC028100, FIC028010
ISBN: 9780857662637, Related ISBNs: 0857662627, 0857662635, 0857665421, 9780857662620, 9780857662637
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.

For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing...

File Under: Science Fiction [Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation]
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