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Anderson, Ros

(?   -    ) UK dancer, journalist and author whose first novel, The Hierarchies (2020), is narrated by an AI named Sylv.ie (which is to say Sylv Intelligence Embodied), whose sole function as a Sex doll physically indistinguishable from humans is to satisfy the ravenous needs of human males. Sylv.ie's growth in self-awareness leads her away from her human owner into a Near Future Dystopian world where, after escaping the Doll Hospital where she has been constantly raped,, she finds fulfilment in a same-sex romance. [JC]

Ros Anderson

born West Penwith, Cornwall

works

• The Hierarchies (New York: Dutton, 2020) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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