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Service Model

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A robot valet commits murder, then discovers civilization has already lost the plot.

GenresSci-Fi
Genre and trope pairingsSci-FiPost-apocalypticSci-FiRobots
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About Service Model

Charles, a dutiful robot servant, finds he has killed his master and sets out for diagnosis. Beyond the household, human society is decaying and the machines built to serve it must confront what purpose means when no one is left to give orders.

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Darkness
Balanced
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Balanced
Content warnings
  • murder
  • blood
  • classism
  • war
  • violence
  • death
  • slavery
  • confinement
  • genocide
  • forced institutionalization

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