Autonomous: How Not To Write a Science Fiction Novel
The main character, Jack, is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate. Autonomous is set in 2144, and Jack works to reverse-engineer drugs produced by big pharmaceutical companies. She sells these on the black market for profit.
The irony of it all is that Jack causes a pharmaceutical disaster in the same way as the corporations she fights against. And she causes it for the same reason: money.
A drug she reverse engineers goes haywire, giving people obsessive-compulsive addictions that they cannot control (people start working themselves to death after taking her drug).
Bots in this society are initially enslaved but can earn their way out of ownership, going fully autonomous. Humans can be enslaved too, but there is no autonomy key for them to undo trauma from an enslaved childhood.
Pirates, evil corporations, bots, a futuristic and artificial intelligence world: what’s not to like?
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