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Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’m trying to read some or all of this year’s Hugo nominees, and this was first (other than the one I read last year). Charles is a robot valet with an extremely monotonous existence, then suddenly he finds himself free to do whatever he thinks best. The world has become a robot dystopia, though, and it’s hard for him to figure things out. Tchaikovsky does a wonderful job with satiric humor – I kept laughing out loud – and also with vividly illustrating the difference between humans and robots by letting the reader realize things that Charles cannot. I also appreciated the value judgments that come up in the last few chapters. All in all, a very entertaining book that’s also worthwhile for bigger reasons.