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Annie Bot

A Novel

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Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and NPR. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.

"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." — Esquire

"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." — New Scientist

For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard.

She’s learning, too.

Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?

"Annie Bot is a book to hold close to your heart when the walls start closing in." — Washington Post

©2024 Sierra Greer (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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Not your average AI
It would be tempting to think this is a story you’ve heard before: a robot created solely for human subservience and sexual gratification wrestles with the complexities of free will and personhood. But you’d be missing out on one heck of a story—because Sierra Greer’s version manages a fresh, unexpected take on AI and all the hopes and fears we ascribe to it. What results is a highly plausible vision of what our eventual coexistence may look like. The very intelligent yet painfully naive Annie is not like any AI character I’ve encountered before—she’s messier, more adrift. Jennifer Jill Araya did her homework for this performance: Her subtle shifts in cadence between types of bots, as well as capturing the range of human affects we don throughout our day, added such dimension to this story. —Sam D., Audible Editor

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I couldn’t put it down!!!

What a fantastic book- it really makes you think about what makes us human, whose feelings are valid and what free agency is. It may be too soon to hope for this….. but I really hope there is a sequel.
I will also say that this made me think a little of the Barbie movie and how this is a much darker and explicit take on that. You’ll car h yourself humming “what was I made for” as you read.

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The struggle that Annie endured to become real.

I like Annie's courage, curiosity and perseverance. She could have given up at many points of her journey, but chose not to.

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Best book in ages

Amazing story. Very deep. Made you think. Great character development. I truly enjoyed it. Very well done.

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A Unique Clever Story!

This is a book I know I will keep thinking about for many months. The author and narrator did a great job. Very entertaining and thought provoking!

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Incredible point of view

Fascinating study of the male-female dynamic. So creatively presented through a female AI perspective. Wow.

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Details yes a very interesting book. Good storyline seem believable impressed

Like everything dislike I hope she writes other books. This is really good refreshing nothing

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The humanity of an enslaved sentient being and the misguided depravity of humans

The almost made me so mad. I am glad it ended the way it did, but part of me wanted more revenge against Doug.

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Lots of surprises in a well trod genre

I love explorations of A.I. and what sets us apart as human. There are certainly echoes of Her, AI the movie, I, Robot, etc. in Annie Bot. But with a feminist lens in today's America, the novel feels fresh and relevant. i also appreciated the nuance in characters and their development over time; this is not a moralistic novel where the bad guys are always horrible. It's much more interesting this way.

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Fun intriguing thought provoking

Quick read and exactly what it says it is. A microscopic view in a sentient AI sexbot and what it is to find yourself and your freedom

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Patriarchy

Perhaps my title says it all. We humans have not evolved passed “object constancy.” The developmental psychologist Piaget used this phrase to describe the cognitive development of children. Learning that objects have an independent existence.
We haven’t evolved enough to understand that those we love are different from us. Men forced women to mirror the kind of person “object” that they wanted.
Women have started to wake up the way Annie has but like her there is so much more for all of us to learn.

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