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Praise for Patrick "A shocking, violent read, jam-packed with action and a cast of incredible characters" -- Independent Weekly (Australia) "A superb debut. A great crime novel. Brilliant is the word" -- Independent on Sunday "Packed with adrenalin, violence and an all-too-credible set of New York characters" -- The Times "Tightly plotted, confidently written and very hip" -- Observer * * * What if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Susan Jones is about to find out. A robotics scientist out of MIT, Susan is one of the inventors of the Sexbot, the world’s most advanced robot sex toy. Sexbots combine the cutting edge of robotics, sex dolls, and artificial intelligence into one sensational product. Marketed to the richest of the rich, they’re beautiful, they’re smart, and oh so sexy – so realistic, in fact, that they’re almost more human than humans themselves. Sexbots have made Susan, and the company she works for, Suncoast Cybernetics, vastly wealthy. But Susan is working on a new project. She has stumbled upon the key to immortality – which is to download human awareness into intelligent machines. She conducts her first experiments on chimpanzees, and the process works. Concerned by the ethics of the discovery, Susan tries to delay the project. But Suncoast is eager to move forward with human trials. CEO Howard Neale believes immortality will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars and wants to rush the product to market, while company Chairman James Walsh is dying of cancer and wants to use the technology to save himself. The company sends the assassins Mr. Blue and Mr. Green to murder Susan at her home. Just before they kill her, Susan runs to her private lab, and downloads herself into the most intelligent machine she has at hand – Number Nine, the prototype for the ninth generation of Sexbots. Number Nine is faster, stronger, and more sexual than any human. Now, Susan is inside Number Nine, dead and yet alive, and on the run. Pursued by Mr. Blue and the militarized security forces of the company, and with a bomb inside her set to go off in 24 hours, Nine must use her smarts, her physical gifts and her hedonistic sexuality to survive. Sexbot is fast-paced, sexy, pedal to the metal adventure, with twists, turns and surprises galore. * * * Praise for Patrick “Smoked by Patrick Quinlan secures your attention like a rusty nail being driven in your forehead.” - Peter Kettle, Amazon Reviewer “Like a small snowball on a hill it gathers pace and crashes on grabbing you with it to the end... then you think to yourself... hell I wanna do that again.” - WoolyBully, Amazon Reviewer
206 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 28, 2014
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September 2, 2018
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More like 3 and 1/2.
While nothing groundbreaking, Sexbot is a highly entertaining read that begs to be finished in one go with your favorite EDM playlist as the soundtrack. Myself, I’ll be looking into Quinlan’s back catalog for some of my future thriller needs.
More like 3 and 1/2.
While nothing groundbreaking, Sexbot is a highly entertaining read that begs to be finished in one go with your favorite EDM playlist as the soundtrack. Myself, I’ll be looking into Quinlan’s back catalog for some of my future thriller needs.
September 3, 2022
With a title like Sexbot, and a cover like the one to the left, there's probably not a lot I can say about this that will surprise you. It's an interesting tale with a nice combination of sci-fi espionage and action-thriller, kind of like an early Michael Crichton adventure, but it's all played rather loosely, with a lot of flash and flair, but not a lot of substance.
Patrick Quinlan has crafted a decent story here, and has some really interesting ideas. His sexbots are highly advanced android companions for the filthy rich, advanced enough with the latest model to not only move and speak naturally, and almost fool you into thinking they have a personality. The prototype for the ninth generation model is even more advanced yet, but there's only one of her, and she's destined to serve as a very important guinea pig.
As the story begins, Martin and Susan, the company geniuses behind Suncoast Cybernetics' latest project, are being marked for death by company executives, all to keep them from revealing their mind-blowing discovery. Before she dies, however, Susan successfully manages to upload herself into that ninth generation sexbot, making for a very successful guinea pig indeed. That's where the story starts getting good, but also where its flaws begin to show. Quinlan does a decent job of portraying the conflict between human and machine, with the sexbot's erotic programming fighting to override Susan's more intellectual needs, but he doesn't nearly go deep enough. Also, besides escaping the assassins and saving her life, Susan doesn't really have a motivation here - not revenge, not justice, and not even fulfilling her life's work and revealing that secret of immortality.
On the flip side, there's not one man in the tale who doesn't think with the appendage between his legs, or the big guns that compensate for it. They're either mindless soldiers who simply follow orders and march to their death, or horny bastards who want to own Susan/Nine and who either help or hinder her escape out of a lustful desire for possession. As for the one decent man who shows up at the end of the story, he's so easygoing and willing to accept the insanity that Susan brings into his life that you have to assume he's blissfully high on some sort of end-of-life painkilling drugs. Mr. Blue is a somewhat interesting character, an assassin who finds love, but he's almost wasted here, and certainly never explored to his full potential.
Having said all that, the science is really interesting, and the science fiction is quite fascinating. The how and why of harnessing a person's essence and downloading it into sexbot actually makes a good bit of sense. As well, the action is very well done - assuming you're okay with the mindless violence of a good thriller - and there are a few good twists along the way. Sexbot is by no means a must-read classic, but it's an interesting diversion.
Originally reviewed at Beauty in Ruins
Patrick Quinlan has crafted a decent story here, and has some really interesting ideas. His sexbots are highly advanced android companions for the filthy rich, advanced enough with the latest model to not only move and speak naturally, and almost fool you into thinking they have a personality. The prototype for the ninth generation model is even more advanced yet, but there's only one of her, and she's destined to serve as a very important guinea pig.
As the story begins, Martin and Susan, the company geniuses behind Suncoast Cybernetics' latest project, are being marked for death by company executives, all to keep them from revealing their mind-blowing discovery. Before she dies, however, Susan successfully manages to upload herself into that ninth generation sexbot, making for a very successful guinea pig indeed. That's where the story starts getting good, but also where its flaws begin to show. Quinlan does a decent job of portraying the conflict between human and machine, with the sexbot's erotic programming fighting to override Susan's more intellectual needs, but he doesn't nearly go deep enough. Also, besides escaping the assassins and saving her life, Susan doesn't really have a motivation here - not revenge, not justice, and not even fulfilling her life's work and revealing that secret of immortality.
On the flip side, there's not one man in the tale who doesn't think with the appendage between his legs, or the big guns that compensate for it. They're either mindless soldiers who simply follow orders and march to their death, or horny bastards who want to own Susan/Nine and who either help or hinder her escape out of a lustful desire for possession. As for the one decent man who shows up at the end of the story, he's so easygoing and willing to accept the insanity that Susan brings into his life that you have to assume he's blissfully high on some sort of end-of-life painkilling drugs. Mr. Blue is a somewhat interesting character, an assassin who finds love, but he's almost wasted here, and certainly never explored to his full potential.
Having said all that, the science is really interesting, and the science fiction is quite fascinating. The how and why of harnessing a person's essence and downloading it into sexbot actually makes a good bit of sense. As well, the action is very well done - assuming you're okay with the mindless violence of a good thriller - and there are a few good twists along the way. Sexbot is by no means a must-read classic, but it's an interesting diversion.
Originally reviewed at Beauty in Ruins
March 25, 2024
Ahead of its time
Great storytelling. This is a peek into a potential future as it is unfolding in the present. It is the first in a series of 3 books. After reading this first you will be hooked into reading the next 2. The writing is concise, with dialogue and scene plotting as I imagine Tarantino would have cast it.
Great storytelling. This is a peek into a potential future as it is unfolding in the present. It is the first in a series of 3 books. After reading this first you will be hooked into reading the next 2. The writing is concise, with dialogue and scene plotting as I imagine Tarantino would have cast it.
August 5, 2025
Fast and fun. Not a lot of depth but moves right along and plays with some interesting ideas.
October 5, 2025
Good
Interesting book look forward to reading the other two. This book has action and adventure and a little more.
Thank you
Interesting book look forward to reading the other two. This book has action and adventure and a little more.
Thank you
March 17, 2025
Great read
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October 1, 2015
I'm not sure who came up with Sexbot for the title, but I think it does the book a disservice, as does the over-the-top cleavage-based cover. Not because I'm some sort of prude, but because it might lead potential customers to shy away, since it screams "erotica" to anyway who even glances its way.
The problem that creates it two fold:
1. Anyone attracted by the lure of the title and cover is going to be disappointed. While there are some sexy bits, it's not as explicit as one might be led to think. Erotica it's not, and there are fans of science fiction erotica out there who might be enticed only to be disappointed.
2. Anyone who decides to avoid it because of the over-the-top sexy cover will miss out on a pretty good near-future action thriller. And that's too bad.
Martin and Susan are hotshot computer and artificial intelligence scientists working for Suncoast Cybernetics. In the course of their research to build an ever-better and more human artificial intelligence (which their company uses to build realistic androids to sell as sexual companions), they stumble across a method that allows the "uploading" of a person's mind to a machine intelligence. This, combined with the ever advancing androids they are able to build, offers potential immortality... to those who can pay the prince of course.
Read more at SFReader.com Sexbot, by Patrick Quinlan
The problem that creates it two fold:
1. Anyone attracted by the lure of the title and cover is going to be disappointed. While there are some sexy bits, it's not as explicit as one might be led to think. Erotica it's not, and there are fans of science fiction erotica out there who might be enticed only to be disappointed.
2. Anyone who decides to avoid it because of the over-the-top sexy cover will miss out on a pretty good near-future action thriller. And that's too bad.
Martin and Susan are hotshot computer and artificial intelligence scientists working for Suncoast Cybernetics. In the course of their research to build an ever-better and more human artificial intelligence (which their company uses to build realistic androids to sell as sexual companions), they stumble across a method that allows the "uploading" of a person's mind to a machine intelligence. This, combined with the ever advancing androids they are able to build, offers potential immortality... to those who can pay the prince of course.
Read more at SFReader.com Sexbot, by Patrick Quinlan
September 30, 2014
Sexbot is part suspenseful thriller, part dystopian futurism and all kinds of fun. I found this book to be an intelligent and wild romp true to author Patrick Quinlan's fast-hitting, dangerous style. Our protagonist Susan is a robotics scientist who's played her part in the creation of the perfect sexual partner; what once was but a pipe dream for men everywhere now is a reality.
Susan has moved on to another project with even bigger, more world-altering implications, and is now faced with a moral dilemma. But her new research is more valuable to the corporation than anyone could have anticipated, and they'll do whatever it takes to maintain their complete control over this technology.
All this leads to Susan being essentially on the run from her own creation, inside one of her other creations. Quinlan artfully constructs a fast paced thrilling game of cat-and-mouse where we follow Susan as "Number Nine" through a dangerous journey that must end within the next 24 hours, all the while revealing more and more of the inner workings of this mystery. This read was, for me, quick, nonstop entertainment. You won't be able to put it down once you've begun reading.
Susan has moved on to another project with even bigger, more world-altering implications, and is now faced with a moral dilemma. But her new research is more valuable to the corporation than anyone could have anticipated, and they'll do whatever it takes to maintain their complete control over this technology.
All this leads to Susan being essentially on the run from her own creation, inside one of her other creations. Quinlan artfully constructs a fast paced thrilling game of cat-and-mouse where we follow Susan as "Number Nine" through a dangerous journey that must end within the next 24 hours, all the while revealing more and more of the inner workings of this mystery. This read was, for me, quick, nonstop entertainment. You won't be able to put it down once you've begun reading.
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August 27, 2014I am lost for words at how appallingly written this is. It was just so fucking bad. The whole story was handled like a drunk gorilla trying to dock at the ISS.
Dear lord I need brain bleach now. HOW was this thing approved for publication?? No stars.
Dear lord I need brain bleach now. HOW was this thing approved for publication?? No stars.
July 24, 2015
The premise of a mind-upload into a sexbot is interesting, the execution that follows however is riddled with cliches and doesn't provide much food for thought.
The amount of sex in the book also doesn't really work, it's to naughty for serious sci-fi, but on the other side it's not nearly enough to pass as erotic fiction.
Most of the book is however neither spend with sex nor with exploring sci-fi ideas, but with mundane action sequences, assassins and evil cooperation that would feel right at home in some low-budget 90's made-for-TV sci-fi movie. The whole plot basically just jumps from one action sequence to another and all the character actions in between rarely make much sense beyond allowing the next action sequence to happen.
The biggest flaw of the book is however that it doesn't lead anywhere. By the end of it nothing is really accomplished or resolved. Everybody is still exactly where they started.
The book is a short and easy read and it does a good job at keeping your attention, but it just feels void of interesting ideas beyond it's premise.
The amount of sex in the book also doesn't really work, it's to naughty for serious sci-fi, but on the other side it's not nearly enough to pass as erotic fiction.
Most of the book is however neither spend with sex nor with exploring sci-fi ideas, but with mundane action sequences, assassins and evil cooperation that would feel right at home in some low-budget 90's made-for-TV sci-fi movie. The whole plot basically just jumps from one action sequence to another and all the character actions in between rarely make much sense beyond allowing the next action sequence to happen.
The biggest flaw of the book is however that it doesn't lead anywhere. By the end of it nothing is really accomplished or resolved. Everybody is still exactly where they started.
The book is a short and easy read and it does a good job at keeping your attention, but it just feels void of interesting ideas beyond it's premise.
February 12, 2015
I wasn't sure what this was.
With a title such as "Sexbot," readers will come in with a certain expectation. When you name something provocatively, you have to show the, pardon my French, money shot quickly.
This is not futuristic porn (not that there's anything wrong with that). It's an action flick in book form, set in a gritty near-future in which the book's hero avoids bad guys by uploading herself into a sexbot. Naturally, hijinks ensue.
The quick read contains betrayals, conspiracies, narrow escapes and tense action. There's some sex. But there isn't nearly as much as you might imagine if someone were to tell you the hero is a robot built for sex.
The story reminds me more of Robocop. That's one of the highest compliments I can give.
With a title such as "Sexbot," readers will come in with a certain expectation. When you name something provocatively, you have to show the, pardon my French, money shot quickly.
This is not futuristic porn (not that there's anything wrong with that). It's an action flick in book form, set in a gritty near-future in which the book's hero avoids bad guys by uploading herself into a sexbot. Naturally, hijinks ensue.
The quick read contains betrayals, conspiracies, narrow escapes and tense action. There's some sex. But there isn't nearly as much as you might imagine if someone were to tell you the hero is a robot built for sex.
The story reminds me more of Robocop. That's one of the highest compliments I can give.
January 20, 2016
This is a very well written short piece. The characters are smooth and realistic and the plot is all it can be. At first, I thought I was going to jump into in erotic book with explicit content, but that wasn't the case. Instead, I received an action packed short ebook that I really enjoyed. Good job, sir.
April 26, 2015
This is an odd book. It has everything that you could think of rolled into it. It has a murder, industrial espionage, police procedures, sci-fi, romance, and a little dash of a happy ending. But it works.
September 3, 2014
Turbo-charged fun!
I love this book. It's very fast-moving, you can practically read it all the way through in one sitting. Thought-provoking, titillating and fun.
I love this book. It's very fast-moving, you can practically read it all the way through in one sitting. Thought-provoking, titillating and fun.
October 2, 2014
The ending was kind of predictable and was very sudden. With all that happened, hearing some of the aftermath would have really improved it for me.
December 30, 2014
Poor ending but awesome until the last 50 pages.
March 23, 2015
Just couldn't get on with this one. Sorry
June 21, 2015
Great idea. Starts really promisingly. Fizzles out, as though the author either forgot what he wanted to say or couldn't be bothered. Pity.
November 11, 2017
It ended poorly.
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