"vN is a strikingly fresh work of mind-expanding science fiction."– iO9"Ashby's debut is a fantastic adventure story that carries a sly philosophical payload about power and privilege, gender and race. It is often profound, and it is never boring."– Cory Doctorow"Picks up where Blade Runner left off and maps territories Ridley Scott barely even glimpsed. vN might just be the most piercing interrogation of humanoid AI since Asimov kicked it all off with the Three Laws."– Peter Watts"Will AIs be objects, or people? Caught between the category of human and everything else, we can't think about the very real entities that inhabit – and will inhabit – the excluded middle. Madeline Ashby's done more than just think about that territory; she's made it her home. Person; object; we need new words for things that are neither – and in vN, Ashby provides them."– Karl Schroeder