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 intelligence or robot-focused story that explores what it means to be human Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? , battling other robots--and saving all of humanity. The robots and the imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a

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The Robot Books I love a good artificial intelligence- or robot-focused story, and these six (plus, in Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? Network Effect . 02 Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson This story features supporting AI and robot The economy runs on robots, partially augmented humans, and humans desperately trying to compete with Robots! Artificial intelligence!

Operation Bounce House is a fast-paced, bizarro, humor-filled science fiction novel featuring robots, Their intelligent agriculture robots turn out to be capable of much more than Oliver and his friends fighting humans on Oliver's planet, and New Sonoran citizens are being wiped out by armored, powerful robots The agricultural robots, led by Roger, protect the humans as best they can, while Oliver and friends In the initial scenes I felt unmoored by the robotic honeybees and the voice of Oliver's family robot

examine in any depth the reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny" robot I enjoy stories about evolving AI sentience and life with robots, and that aspect was fascinating here myself wishing for more exploration into the human condition as contrasted with the carefully scripted robot You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI or other stories about robots that I've reviewed.

This short novel explores an alternate-history, near-future, post-war San Francisco in which robots come In a San Francisco of the near future, a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned But now they work both within and outside an upheaved system, leveraging their ability as robots to access The robots suffer from prejudice and bear the brunt of fear-mongering from much of society. lives of those in their neighborhood looking for reliable, high-quality food by producing the best (robot

Intelligent robots, "hums," have taken over much of the workforce, with their relentless advertisements Do you enjoy novels about robots and AI? I listened to Hum  as an audiobook. For Bossy reviews of other books about robots and artificial intelligence, please check out the posts

The book Rusted Robots takes off like a rocket in popularity, changing almost everything in her life and disappointment (a violent attack when she visits Nigeria; the white bastardization of her Rusted Robots This is literary fiction with portions of science fiction, and I adored the portions of Rusted Robots

System Collapse provides more of SecUnit's emotional coping with PTSD than action, and I missed the faster pacing of other books, but I love being in SecUnit's world again. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. In System Collapse, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot (SecUnit), who in this seventh book in the series is faced with attempting to rescue, along with a team of humans, the inhabitants of a newly colonized planet. These colonists are in danger from an unethical corporation that's out to take advantage of and force labor from them. At the end of the last book, Fugitive Telemetry, SecUnit almost died. This story picks up immediately after those events, alluding to various ongoing emotional impacts and SecUnit system glitches that are linked to that trauma, which feels like Murderbot PTSD. Because of all of this, SecUnit isn't working as it should, despite ART's best attempts at repairing it and the Preservation Station human allies' work at trying to figure out the problem. (I didn't feel as connected to the human team here as in other Murderbot books--and I always miss Mensah when she is not present.) I love being back in the middle of the deep, irritation-filled, intensely loyal SecUnit and ART friendship and a Wells Murderbot story. I haven't read a Murderbot book in two and a half years, but the slow build here made it difficult for me to dive in, and the extended parenthetical sections (a structure familiar from other books) felt like they were bogging down the story. Frequent "redacted" notes and abruptly ended thoughts added to my inability to feel like I had a handle on and investment in the story. I loved the concept of SecUnit's exploring emotions (Murderbot emotions!) and trying to come to terms with its near-death experience, yet the page time spent on insecurity, fear, and facing past trauma is one reason the pacing of System Collapse felt quite slow to me until the final sections. The end section of the story involves fast-paced reactions and conflicts, with SecUnit doing its thing--revising plans, providing limitless human protection, and taking unorthodox approaches--to wonderful effect. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? You can click here to find my Bossy reviews of Murderbot books 1 through 3, book 4, Exit Strategy, book 5, Network Effect, as well as book 6, Fugitive Telemetry.

Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world where they existed are beginning in, and the robot asks: What do humans need? Dex can't imagine being able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI.

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Gaer band together to solve the mystery of a murder committed by a riev, a decommissioned battle-mecha robot And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising If you like books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI.

Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends like family It has just become sentient, and like its robot sisters, it has been programmed to fight the aliens currently

The Robot Books I love a good artificial intelligence- or robot-focused story, and these six (plus, in Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? Network Effect. 02 Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson This story features supporting AI and robot The economy runs on robots, partially augmented humans, and humans desperately trying to compete with Robots! Artificial intelligence!

the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and hindered by the slow humans and frequently dopey robots

ICYMI: I've been thinking lately about robot books and specifically about this great series by Neuvel , in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery her life's work a hole that has intricate carvings covering the walls, and she wakes up in the palm of an enormous robot Neuvel was reportedly inspired to write this book after his son asked him to build a toy robot and requested

Robots! Artificial intelligence! The economy runs on robots, partially augmented humans, and humans desperately trying to compete with This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life For my full review, please see Girl One. 06 Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson Robots, time This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life

White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots, showcases the power of After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any , battling other robots--and saving all of humanity. , Humans and Alien Life, and AI) may have ruined me for all other robot characters forever. But August Kitko isn't about the robots from space.

friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious giant robots What is the meaning of these robotlike creatures?

The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag group of underdogs saving the day. In Alex White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers series, a group of outcasts bands together to locate a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of the wrong people, people who would use it as a weapon. The Harrow, the greatest warship ever built, has been lost for so long, some say it's merely a legend. But a hotshot racer who's on the run, a has-been treasure hunter looking for redemption, and the rest of the ragtag crew of the Capricious know that the ship is real--and that whoever controls the ship will control the fate of the universe. A Big Ship is a space heist book with lots of action, strong women characters driving the plot, and a great underdogs-unite premise. I wasn't completely clear on the intersections of magic (glyphs, spells) and futuristic technology (AI, spaceships, futuristic weaponry), but White includes extensive details about the workings and processes. The explanation of the big reveal regarding the who-what-where-why of the evil masterminds felt so involved that it drew me out of the story somewhat. I was in this for the characters, among them Cordell, the tough captain with a heart of gold; Boots, a jaded former fighter pilot turned reality star who hopes for a miracle; and Nilah, a privileged and daring racer who falls for the grumpiest crew member of all. Each character in A Big Ship is reeling from planet-level destruction and heartbreak, and it's satisfying to follow them as they seek redemption, take comfort in and build loyalty to one another, and identify and aim to outsmart their enemies to try to save the world with scrappiness and luck. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I'm in love with the title of the second book in this series, A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy. The third book is titled The Worst of All Possible Worlds. White is also the author of Alien: The Cold Forge and Every Mountain Made Low.

the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and hindered by the slow humans and frequently dopey robots

It also makes a robot friend and ally in ART, a research transport vessel. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans series, Wells provides another short (176 pages) book in which the main protagonist is a part-organic robot #robots, #series, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

The Books I'm Reading Now Two of these books are largely about redemption, two focus on the twisted blessing-and-curse of technology, and all three touch on identifying some version of a new reality. Where's my Venn diagram to map out all of these intersecting themes? Which books are you reading and enjoying these days, bookworms? 01 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is Hank Green's sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and the final book in his Carl saga. It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight to save humanity from interfering extraterrestrials. Green tells his funny, poignant, tech-focused story through characters' alternating viewpoints, and it feels like April May--who died at the end of book one--may be about to reemerge. The characters' desires for reinvention and redemption are really interesting to me, as is the continued examination of the two-sided blessing and curse of social media and of technology in general. 02 A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year ago and, unsurprisingly, since then she hasn't been able to face any semblance of moving forward with her life. When she stumbles across her daughter's elaborate road trip plan she created for her then-soon-to-be-empty-nester parents, Miriam feels compelled to take the trip. She brings along her family members' musical instruments, envisioning a sort of musical pilgrimage, and she meets unexpected characters along the way, encounters dangerous weather, and begins to come alive again--despite her reservations and guilty feelings about breaking from her dedicated mourning. So far Basi is managing what seems like an incredible feat, as this is purely lovely and not maudlin or sappy at all despite the tragedy at the book's heart. I admit I Bossily feared that painfully sentimental tones might creep in, but in cases like this I love realizing that I'm incorrectly aiming my coldhearted prejudgment. I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Alcove Press and NetGalley. 03 No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy. This book somewhat defies labeling--so far it's essentially a satire about media and society, and it's told in short snippets. In No One Is Talking about This, a social media darling undergoes an existential crisis and wonders if her thoughts are being controlled externally. She is compelled to continue trying to engage and often shock those reading her posts, and she frequently wonders what is real and what is constructed reality--and what it's all for, anyway. This feels like a book that will inspire a lot of spirited discussion and possibly passionate opinions.

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Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #robots, #postapocalypticdystopian, #timetravel, #fourstarbookreview

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son after the Great Hunger, Land; I'm listening to Matt Dinniman's wild science fiction ride about robots of Dungeon Crawler Carl presents a fast-paced, bizarro, humor-filled science fiction novel featuring robots Intelligent agriculture robots turn out to be capable of much more than Oliver and friends realized;

I'm reading Annalee Newitz's newest science fiction, Automatic Noodle , a novella about deactivated robots 01 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz In a San Francisco of the near future, a group of deactivated robots In Annalee Newitz's novella, the robots touch the lives of their neighborhood by producing the best hand-pulled

Newitz This short novel explores an alternate-history, near-future, post-war San Francisco in which robots In a San Francisco of the near future, a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned The robots suffer from prejudice and bear the brunt of fear-mongering from much of society. lives of those in their neighborhood looking for reliable, high-quality food by producing the best (robot Intelligent robots, "hums," have taken over much of the workforce, with their relentless advertisements

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Elizabeth McCracken; I'm reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the first in Becky Chambers's Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world where they in, and the robot asks: What do humans need? Dex can't imagine being able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List

Lostetter Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends For my full review, please check out Project Hail Mary. 06 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world in, and the robot asks: What do humans need? Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI.

Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any a small group of traitorous Vanguards--and tasked with being modified, temporarily melded with the robots , battling other robots--and saving all of humanity. The robots and the imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a

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the steampunk aspects--the airship transport, steam-powered mechanical animals, and the mechanical robot

science fiction reads centering around artificial intelligence, extraterrestrials, genetics, space, and robots this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots I enjoy stories about evolving AI sentience and life with robots, and that aspect was fascinating here myself wishing for more exploration into the human condition as contrasted with the carefully scripted robot

Mechas from Space by Alex White White's first Starmetal Symphony installment offers deadly deep-space robots After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any a small group of traitorous Vanguards--and tasked with being modified, temporarily melded with the robots , battling other robots--and saving all of humanity. The robots and the imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a

Click here for my full review of The Fire and the Ore. 05 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world where they existed are beginning The robot's appearance and his observations and questions upends many of the ideas Dex had taken for The wilderness experience and the conversations he shares with the robot shock Dex--but letting go also

Starmetal Symphony series, the space opera August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, about deadly AI robots After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any

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of 2022. 02 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science fiction robots In Iron Widow, Chrysalises are giant robots used to battle the aliens beyond the Great Wall, and the

In Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science-fiction robots and aliens in this Chrysalises are giant robots used to battle the aliens beyond the Great Wall, and the girls who pilot

Jessica isn't shown to be a complex, surprising character--more of a high-achieving, gorgeous robot.

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the inevitability of the winding down of human space exploration in light of the growing promise of robots

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