Ros Anderson

BIG MOVIE NEWS: The Hierarchies received multiple competitive film offers and will ultimately be brought to the big screen by Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

RELEVANT, TIMELY THEMES: The artificial intelligence revolution is coming, and this novel vividly imagines a future, reshaped social hierarchy in which there are two classes of women: "born" and "created"-and as it turns out, both are equally disempowered. Articles like the New York Magazine cover story "Are We Ready for Robot Sex?" and the NYT feature "Do You Take This Robot," or the wildly popular HBO series Westworld, demonstrate the abundant consumer interest in the thorny topic of artificial intelligence as it relates to personal autonomy, sex, and consent-and how the rise of robots who can cater to absolutely any fantasy will impact the lives of real human women.

LITERARY, VOICE-DRIVEN WRITING: [...] is an incredibly unique and compelling character, and her voice will pull you in from the very first page. The novel is told entirely from her perspective as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. The diary format was inspired by the memoirs of medieval Japanese women at court-now recognized as some of the earliest novels written by women.

BRILLIANT AND UNEXPECTED: This flips your expectations for a book about AI on its head: it is not a book about why we should be afraid of robots, but rather a book about why robots should be afraid of us. The first-person perspective of a woman "created" for human consumption allows Ros to delve deeply into questions of humanity, personhood and bodily ownership, as well as our present-day culture from an outsider's POV.

CROSS-GENRE APPEAL: This book sits at the intersection between smart high-concept feminist fiction, futuristic dystopian fiction, accessible sci-fi for a mainstream audience, and literary fiction.