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Hi all.

I'll try to be as specific as possible here. I'm looking for some books (fiction) about AI, but nothing so clichéd as "robot turns bad". Anyone have any suggestions? Would like something a bit complex but not purposely so. What I mean is I would like something in the vain of ASOIAF, where there isn't a goody versus baddy storyline.

Thanks in advance.
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Speak by Louisa Hall is a recent release that I've heard good reviews about. It's being compared to something like Cloud Atlas with plot threads taking place in multiple time periods, but with AI as the central theme.

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Hi all.
I'll try to be as specific as possible here. I'm looking for some books (fiction) about AI, but nothing so clichéd as "robot turns bad". Anyone have any suggestions? Would like something a bit complex but not purposely so. What I mean is I would like something in the vain of ASOIAF, where there isn't a goody versus baddy storyline.
Thanks in advance.

The first book in a new trilogy called the Alchemy Wars has recently been released called The Mechanical, by Ian Tregillis. I suppose that would sort of fit the requirement of AI, as it includes "robots" of sorts. It's a very good introduction to the trilogy, exploring ideas of free will and such like. And it certainly isn't just a "robots go bad" story either. The second book is due for release in December.
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Up Against It by MJ Locke

A Fire Upon the Deep by Verner Vinge

The Risen Empire/The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld

The Psalms of Isaak by Ken Scholes

 

And definitely The Mechanical

 

The first book in a new trilogy called the Alchemy Wars has recently been released called The Mechanical, by Ian Tregillis. I suppose that would sort of fit the requirement of AI, as it includes "robots" of sorts. It's a very good introduction to the trilogy, exploring ideas of free will and such like. And it certainly isn't just a "robots go bad" story either. The second book is due for release in December.

 

 

 

 


Hi all.

I'll try to be as specific as possible here. I'm looking for some books (fiction) about AI, but nothing so clichéd as "robot turns bad". Anyone have any suggestions? Would like something a bit complex but not purposely so. What I mean is I would like something in the vain of ASOIAF, where there isn't a goody versus baddy storyline.

Thanks in advance.

 

Then don't listen to the Rajaniemi recommendation up thread.  

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 What I mean is I would like something in the vain of ASOIAF, where there isn't a goody versus baddy storyline.

 

ASOIAF most certainly is goodies and baddies. Unless you think murderous necromantic ice demons with a zombie army trying to freeze the world is somehow morally ambiguous?

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Someone above mentioned Asimovs I, Robot.

 

You could extend this to the whole of the Robot series, if you are wanting to read AI it is a cornerstone IMO.

 

Caves of Steel through to Robots and Empire see the evolution of the Laws of Robotics which have had a guiding influence on AI principles in SciFi. Also R. Daneel Olivaw is cool.

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ASOIAF most certainly is goodies and baddies. Unless you think murderous necromantic ice demons with a zombie army trying to freeze the world is somehow morally ambiguous?

Don't be pedantic. ASOIAF is not so goody/baddy as LOTR for example.

You've mentioned one storyline, whereas the entire series is far from clearcut. This is what makes it all so engrossing. For me at least.
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Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Read it recently, it's very good.


Ian M Banks' Culture books have a lot of AI stuff in them. Excession, Look to Windward, Surface Detail and Hydrogen Sonata are particularly concerned with the AIs in one way or another.

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