But Amy is a automatic robot unlike every other – her fail-safe has broken, meaning she is no longer sworn to protect human beings. She and her equally synthetic partner Javier are holed up within their own robot paradise. However the globe that wanted a lot to get hold of Amy – to imprison her, melt her down, or make use of her as a weapon – won’t stay away a lot longer. Javier must work, to Mecha, the automatic robot kingdom, in search of salvation… or loss of life. The outstanding second book from the writer of vN.

“A strikingly fresh work of mind-expanding technology fiction.” iO9.com

“In Ashby’s professional hands, vN cuts an agonizing incision in to the emotional intricacy of oppression in our culture, and just how love can give food to the worst types of hate.” The Guardian