Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. Stross has said that it is "a space opera and late-period Heinlein tribute". It has been nominated for the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel , and is a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
The novel describes the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a bishojo gynoid in the distant future. Humanity is extinct and android society has assumed a near-feudal form,...
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Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. Stross has said that it is "a space opera and late-period Heinlein tribute". It has been nominated for the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel , and is a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
The novel describes the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a bishojo gynoid in the distant future. Humanity is extinct and android society has assumed a near-feudal form, with "aristos" and "arbeiters" (a term from the German word arbeiter, worker) spread throughout the Solar System. Freya, a courtesan at loose ends, becomes a courier for the Jeeves Corporation and learns of a shadowy conspiracy to overturn, or perhaps even control, android society. Soon she is on the run with her identity, perhaps even her very existence, threatened.
Saturn's Children is believed to be the first work of fiction to include the dwarf planet Eris as a setting.
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