Stross has quite a lot of fun playing with the world he’s created here, naming a city Heinleingrad, naming a robot butler character after P. The novel opens with an explanation of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and then establishes that humans are extinct. Heinlein, in particular Heinlein's 1982 novel Friday. Saturn's Children is an homage to the works of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. When she offends an aristo and needs to escape off-world, she accepts a job as a courier for the mysterious Jeeves Corporation and becomes embroiled in a complex and dangerous war among factions conspiring against each other for control of society. Freya, a robotic courtesan originally designed to please humans but activated a century after their mysterious extinction, is considered obsolete and works menial jobs to survive.
Wealthy and self-indulgent "aristos" own and have enslaved most of the populace the remaining "free" androids struggle to keep themselves independent and can rarely afford the exorbitant costs of interplanetary travel. The novel chronicles the travels and perils of Freya Nakamichi-47, a gynoid in a distant future in which humanity is extinct and a near- feudal android society has spread throughout the galaxy. An audiobook version narrated by Bianca Amato was released in 2009. The novel was nominated for the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 2009 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award. Stross called it "a space opera and late-period Heinlein tribute", specifically to Heinlein's 1982 novel Friday. Saturn's Children is a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross.
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