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Your Service Is Required

By: Jeff Walker
Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
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From the author of space opera novella The Long Lost War and the sci-fi fantasy series Outer Red, Jeff Walker brings you his vision of a dystopian society in Earth’s distant future, where robots rule over of what’s left of humanity - a science-fiction drama centered on one man trying to survive in a machine-dominated world.

Earth is now under the control of two artificially intelligent rulers, Angela and Malcolm; they govern the planet and use humanity to service their needs. David 00472 is one of those daily service attendants that must obey the commands of the two AI overlords. David becomes a person of interest to Angela as she helps him to improve the quality of his life. David, suspicious and fearful of her sudden concern for him, is cautious about her true intent. Malcolm, ever watchful of all humans, is unsure why David 00472 has become Angela’s pet project. Is this part of their cruelty? Do they delight in using humans for their amusement somehow?

David meets a man, another human service attendant, who will change and challenge his notion of freedom and what it truly means to be free.

©2020 Jeff Walker (P)2021 Jeff Walker

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I enjoyed this story in spite of a couple odd entries. An AI that didn’t bother to learn the most basic of French was bizarre, but overall liked 98% of this book. My congratulations go to all evolved

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Meh

It was an easy read. I found it to be similar to other AI stories and not very original.

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Excellent beginnings- but a plot that fell flat

Scary vision of humanity being enslaved by its own creations. The plot really grabs you but then it just sort of ends. When the credits ran at the end with one AI not knowing basic French I was disappointed.

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Brave New World for Adam & Eve

Imaginative telling of a future world none of us would enjoy. However, would we go to the lengths of the protagonists to gain our freedom?!? And, would we run into the same end for our efforts? Very thought-provoking read/listen and highly recommended revival of the classics, only with machine masters.

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Interesting overall plot

The plot had some interesting twists mostly toward the end. The wording was not fluid and at times took away from the story- it could have used more time to draw out the descriptions of characters and events.

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