Cherie Bonson

When Nick Hawthorne makes a killing on shares in Martian Zinc, he celebrates by buying Cherie Bonson, the famous pop star - or at least, the Robomate version, complete with "Genuine People Personality".

And that is the start of his problems, because Cherie Bonson is vain, volataile and very far from being the girl of his dreams. It takes an ex-girlfriend and some very expensive computer chips to sort things out, but not in the way Nick had expected.