I hope this reads better than I feel like it does.
in the beginning
A world of inflating crime and fallible technology. A city perceived to be one of the great automaton capitals; its population of humanoid machines is predicted to match that of the people in the next three years. All the time, the division between the price of bone and metal grows thinner and thinner. Both can easily become victims of prejudice, hate, and the hunger of the city's grim underbelly.