Autonomous

While I enjoyed this book, I thought that it was trying to fit too much into a single novel. On the one hand, there is the criticism of the broken patent system and a dystopian-like future where people are essentially commodities for megacorporations. On the other hand, there are the issues surrounding gender and, to some degree, homophobia. The latter was, in my opinion, underwhelming and overly simplistic (a robot "fixes" their genderlessness in the eyes of one homophobic human by simply changing their pronouns). The world building and character development were well done.