Order History
Premium Membership & Rewards
Help Center / FAQ
vN
Paperback
$14.99
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.
For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can ...
For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can ...
From the B&N Reads Blog
See Chappie, Then Pick Up These 6 Stories of Artificial Intelligence
With the announcement of the new those-bad-sequels-never-happened Alien movie, it’s been forgivably easy to forget that Neill Blomkamp has a totally different sci-fi film coming out this week. Chappie is the story of the creation of a new form of thinking machine, and looks to be cresting a wave of new cinematic depictions of artificial intelligence. A.I. also plays a role in […]
Read More
Riding Out the Singularity in Company Town
The future is built on oil. Literally. New Arcadia is a “company town,” an independent nation state built on top of an oil rig off the coast of Canada. Like her debut novel, vN: The First Machine Dynasty, Madeline Ashby’s Company Town brings hard sci-fi sensibilities and big ideas about the fate of humanity in a technological future to a story filled […]
Read More
6 Science Fiction Novels to Read Between Episodes of Westworld
This past weekend, Westworld began its second season, promising 10 more weeks of enigmatic plotting, biomechanical heroes and villains, corporate intrigue, player piano Radiohead covers, and the long, twisted path to consciousness. That also means 10 more weeks of waiting between episodes, a problem for which, as always, science—or science fiction anyway—ofers a solution. Here are […]
Read More