Best novel ever?

[zosimos]

While talking with that pernicious punster, the master of saying what never should be said, the rat fink who sunk Atlantis, sguth1982, we are discussing Sci-Fi and have come upon an awesome idea for a book.

Consider this, a book in the genre of
Post-Modern-Space-Opera-Cyberpunk-Transcendental-Robot-Comedy with musical influences

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Best Novel EVAR!!!

[sguth1982]

I still think it's a great idea... although we may need to splash in a little nihilism...

What are the chances of being able to work in some surrealism?

[mindstalk]

Have you read _Saturn's Children_?

[zosimos]

By Charles Stross right? About the robots after humanity who ape the long dead human culture?

I've heard about it, but I haven't read it. The cover keeps turning me off the book.

[mindstalk]

Well, that's unfair to the book. Compare the British cover.

I thought it was good. The character *is* a sexbot and there is some sex, but nothing I thought was too graphic or pointlessly titillating. Possibly silly in some cases, but even that makes sense when we're told the humans never managed to build full AI from scratch, so all the robots are based to various degrees off human neural structures. Various other bizarro things about the culture eventually make sense in context as well.