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A Batch of Twenty
Amino is America’s most controversial tech company.
Sitting on an abandoned oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, it builds the usual drones and robots, but also an organic lifeform all too close to human. Many people want Amino’s Helper Division to end, including some of the employees working there.
But what do the Helpers want?
When Ethelred and 19 other Helpers return to Amino to have their injuries healed, it starts a chain-reaction of events that threatens not only their future, but the company itself. Ethelred and his fellows fight to define what they are—taking control not only of their own destinies, but Amino’s too. And they do it in a way no human could predict.
Recalling such classics as Karel Capek’s R.U.R., as well as contemporary dystopias like Ex Machina and Bernard Beckett’s Genesis, A Batch of Twenty is a near-future tale in which allies are enemies, humanity’s cheap, and you are what you eat—even if it’s tasteless.
Sitting on an abandoned oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, it builds the usual drones and robots, but also an organic lifeform all too close to human. Many people want Amino’s Helper Division to end, including some of the employees working there.
But what do the Helpers want?
When Ethelred and 19 other Helpers return to Amino to have their injuries healed, it starts a chain-reaction of events that threatens not only their future, but the company itself. Ethelred and his fellows fight to define what they are—taking control not only of their own destinies, but Amino’s too. And they do it in a way no human could predict.
Recalling such classics as Karel Capek’s R.U.R., as well as contemporary dystopias like Ex Machina and Bernard Beckett’s Genesis, A Batch of Twenty is a near-future tale in which allies are enemies, humanity’s cheap, and you are what you eat—even if it’s tasteless.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2022
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Chris Edwards
3 books2 followersCHRIS EDWARDS is the author of the science-fiction novellas A Batch of Twenty, Optimal Power and Phillip Drives the Dead. With inspirations ranging from Phillip K. Dick to John Wyndham to Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA, he writes about what it means to be an individual in dystopian times. His other interests include video games—especially the old ones nobody remembers—plus silent film, animation, Sumo, dinosaurs and animals even older than dinosaurs. Chris lives in Toronto, ON, with his wife and children, all of whom are incredible.
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