Tik-Tok by John Sladek
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Overview: Robot narrator Tik-Tok may have winsome ways and a cute name from Oz, but inside he’s bad, bad, bad. It’s not just that his "asimov circuits" which stop robots hurting people are defective. He enjoys killing, starting with a dear little blind girl in chapter one and reaching a body count well into four figures. With such achievements behind him, how could Tik-Tok not be offered the US Vice-Presidency?
Sladek’s nightmarishly satirical future America is full of daft technology like a nuclear powered land aircraft carrier the size of Delaware, needing 135 million tyres. Starting life on a Southern plantation where they lynch robots instead of blacks, Tik-Tok rapidly changes owners: a fast food entrepreneur whose Szechuan duck is really armadillo, a habitual robot-smasher, a fake evangelist (Rev. Flint Orifice) who repeatedly "saves" Tik-Tok at public performances, and many more. Successful careers as robot artist and crime lord are mere steps toward the top.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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