

Review of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
Culpability shapes questions around artificial intelligence--and societal and individual responsibility for it--around imperfect characters who have drifted apart and must now recognize each other's fallibility, whether through sacrificing or trying to protect each other. The Cassidy-Shaws are riding in their family's autonomous minivan when it crashes into another vehicle. Seventeen-year-old Charlie, the twins, their father Noah, and their mother Lorelei, an AI leader, are
Dec 4, 2025


Review of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Death of the Author explores the connection of an author to her work--and how a story can take on a life of its own--in this novel...
Jul 31, 2025


Review of Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger
The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique...
Jul 9, 2025


Six Great Stories about Robots
The Robot Books It's been a long time since I've talked about science fiction and robot stories. I just love a good artificial...
Jun 6, 2025


Review of Hum by Helen Phillips
The dystopian future of Hum is haunting in its familiar elements, its plausible, terrible climate-change effects, the extreme reliance on...
Jan 7, 2025


Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
The Robot Books I love a good artificial intelligence- or robot-focused story, and these six (plus, in several cases, their sequels)...
Nov 8, 2024
