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Madeline Ashby: vN (2012, Angry Robot, Distributed in the U.S. by Random House) 3 stars

"Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine--a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, …

Review of 'vN' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Engaging sf novel about robot/android humans and how they grow up. Explicitly a take on Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, the novel pushes into philosophical questions of parenting, versioning, and how ethical boundaries also mark the boundaries of being.

As a thriller, things inevitably go wrong and the very thing which must not be breached, is. A vN’s failsafe which means they cannot abide violence as a way to protect humans, malfunctions and Amy ends up on the run.