{"id":52907,"date":"2026-07-16T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52907"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:32:56","slug":"service-model-by-adrian-tchaikovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/07\/16\/service-model-by-adrian-tchaikovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 30 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/63809ebc-173c-4e12-818e-0bf70f240f38\"><cite>Service Model<\/cite><\/a> by Adrian Tchaikovsky.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: This was excellent. Funny (many bits had me quite literally laughing out loud), but with an increasingly serious undertone as it goes. A valet robot kills his employer for reasons he does t understand, and embarks on a quest to figure out why, and then joins with a partner out to determine why society collapsed. From reliance on AI to what actually constitutes consciousness and personhood, there\u2019s a lot of good stuff here, wrapped up in a mismatched buddy adventure. My favorite of Tchaikovsky\u2019s books that I\u2019ve read so far. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6358.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Service Model\" title=\"IMG_6358.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17405,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/63809ebc-173c-4e12-818e-0bf70f240f38&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 30 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: This was excellent. My favorite of Tchaikovsky\u2019s books that I\u2019ve read so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[3962],"class_list":["post-52907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-adrian-tchaikovsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52911,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52907\/revisions\/52911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}