A Batch of Twenty

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Amino is America's most controversial tech company.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sitting on an abandoned oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean it builds the usual drones and robots but also Helpers: an organic lifeform all too close to human. Many people want Amino's Helper Division to end including some of the employees working there.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But what do the Helpers want?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Ethelred and 19 other Helpers return to Amino to have their injuries healed it starts a chain-reaction of events that threatens not only their future but the company itself. Ethelred and his fellows fight to define what they are-taking control not only of their own destinies but Amino's too. And they do it in a way no human could predict.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Recalling such classics as Karel Capek's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>R.U.R.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> as well as contemporary dystopias like </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ex Machina</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and Bernard Beckett's </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Genesis A Batch of Twenty</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a near-future tale in which allies are enemies humanity's cheap and you are what you eat-even if it's tasteless.</span></p>