Hardcover, 303 pages
English language
Published Sept. 19, 2017 by Tor Books.
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack’s latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal overdoses across what used to be North America—a drug that compels people to become addicted to their work.
On Jack’s trail are an unlikely pair: an emotionally shut-down military agent and his partner, Paladin, a young military robot, who fall in love against all expectations. Autonomous alternates between the activities of Jack and her co-conspirators, and Elias and Paladin, as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives, causing trains to crash, and flooding New York City.
Ne, ze by me to uplne nudilo, ale cekal sem od toho prece jen trosku vic. Nekdy dej letel uplne nesmyslnym tempem. V pohode se to dalo roztahnout na vetsi/delsi format. Napadu spousty, ale jednim uchem tam a druhym zas ven. Trosku skoda, tema hodne chytlavy. A zaver je kapitola sama o sobe, no prvotina se pozna.
I can see why this has the buzz it has. Although this was a future setting, it had lots to say about slavery. The habit humanity just can't seem to break. The linking of intellectual property law and how it relates to human bondage was apt and fresh. The story was well told with rounded characters you could relate to. Recommended.
