Autonomous: A Novel

Autonomous: A Novel

<p><b>"</b><i>Autonomous</i><b> is to biotech and AI what </b><i>Neuromancer </i><b>was to the Internet."€•Neal Stephenson</b></p><p><b>"Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV€•and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling."€•William Gibson</b></p><p>When anything can be owned, how can we be free</p><p>Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can€t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.</p><p>Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack€s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.</p><p>And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?</p>