> > Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
> > android sex.
> 
> Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she
> have sex with a human? :-)

Um... that's the plot of the book.  She's a sexbot designed for having sex
with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...

> > It could be that The Atrocity Archives is best
> > appreciated if you know a lot of theoretical computer
> > science, so I'll withhold comment.
> 
> Did Stross come from a CS background? When you say theoretical
> computer science, do you mean something like Knuth or Sedgewick?
> Or further back, like von Neumann?

Yes, Stross has a CS degree and it shows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross

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