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, therefore when her grandmother happens and episodes them, youthful Amy wastes virtually no time: she eats her alive. Right now she’s on the run, transporting her malfunctioning granny being a partition on her behalf memory drive. She’s developing quickly, and learning too. Like the truth that in her, and her by itself, the failsafe that halts all robots from harming humans has stopped operating… Which means that everyone wants a bit of her, some to make use of her like a tool, others to destroy her. “Ashby’s debut is a fantastic adventure story that posesses sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, which is by no means boring.” – Cory Doctorow “vN could just be probably the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off using the Three Laws.” – Peter Watts