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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Book Review

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 Annie Bot  By Sierra Greer  Winner of Arthur C Clarke Award 2025  Published Year: 2024 Page Count: 240 pages  Medium Used: Oneplus phone, LibreraX  Genre: Suspense, AI bots, Sentience, Human AI interaction, Science fiction, Evolution, 2026-read. Rating : 3/5 😎 😎 😎  Frankly, I should like this book better. I mean, the author has transported herself into the thoughts of a rapidly evolving AI cuddle bunny robot, Annie and tracked the evolutionary process with integrity and much imagination. But I don't like it as much because I hated the ending. I hated the personality Annie has grown into, after much work from both herself and her owner, Doug. Sure they had hit a rough patch along their three year plus journey and he showed some inconsistent,self serving and cruel behaviour which rattled/traumatised her deeply but that is only to be subverted in the face of the change in him for better with time, right? He has certainly never demonstrated his punishi...