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Fatal Error

Confessions of a Trash Droid, Book 1

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Fatal Error

By: Michael Cheney
Narrated by: Lukas Arnold
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T.E.D.D. is a trash droid with glitches, sarcasm to spare, and zero interest in dealing with our crap.

Unfortunately, quitting isn’t easy when blackouts, psychotic episodes, and a corporate death squad are on your tail. To survive, T.E.D.D. must embrace his anomaly—and maybe even team up with the humans he can’t stand. Equal parts dry wit and reluctant heroics, a darkly comic sci-fi about the little guy’s fight against the machine and what it means to be human.

Perfect for fans of Martha Wells, Asimov, John Scalzi, Andy Weir, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

©2025 Michael Cheney (P)2025 Michael Cheney Adventure Humorous Science Fiction
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A teenager robot view of the world and it’s not great robotic
Not my style at all

It’s not very Asimov is it

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I really wanted to like this story, but unfortunately it ultimately did not deliver what I was hoping for.

If you want a story with a truly snarky AI, try the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson. It's a slow burn but trust me, wait for the beercan to turn up!

Not quite what I was looking for

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Mimicking the style of different writers to try and gain readers, this author has potential, just needs to write his own story instead of trying to copy others,

This book isn't consistent enough in its own internal rules, it feels like it was written by committee, in that certain things are introduced and then never brought up again, this story needed alot more focus, it really feels like several bits of different books where stitched together to make this one

Trying a bit to hard copy other authors

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Gave up after the first chapter. Trying to be too much of a smartass. Not funny at all.

Waste of a credit

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I really like the main character very human like, a droid I could be friends with

A good story that flowed

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