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CHARLES STROSS takes us to a future where the “people” are the robots left behind 200 years after the last humans died. Although their bodies are robotic, their minds are partly human, with our heritage of ambitions, joys and troubles. Freed from the demands of supporting organic life, they roam from Mercury to in spaceships so claustrophobic they make today’s economy-class aircraft seem like luxury liners.
It has the hallmark of a wild and darkly playful imagination: a city that moves on rails to stay perpetually in the twilight zone of Mercury, with the heroine tied to…
