Bête
By: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Co
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780575127685; 9780575127692
Subjects: Anthropomorphism; Fiction; Science fiction
Description: A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder. But kills anyway. It began when the animal rights movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligences in bid to have the status of animals realigned by the international court of human rights. But what is an animal that can talk? Where does its intelligence end at its machine intelligence begin? And where might its soul reside?