I've reread Saturn's Children and it is as wonderful as I remembered.

I love the idea of this book, it takes the basic ideas of Asimov's Robot books and takes a much more modern and cynical view of what it would take to create such subservient Robots, and on top of that what society such Robots would create after the Humans are gone.

The story revolves around Freya, a female sex robot, she both longs for a human companion, her lost love, having lost the purpose for her existence with the demise of the human race. Yet she deeply fears the total submission meeting a human will engender in her.

It is a spy thriller exploring the society the robots built throughout the solar system. Freya struggles to remain free as a vast conspiracy unfolds around her and her siblings.

Stross has allot of fun describing the difficult conditions facing space travelers.