🏷️ Artificial Intelligence
6 entries tagged with this trope
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Klara is an artificial friend, designed to keep children company. From her store window, she watches and waits for someone to choose her.
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers · 2016
An AI learns what it means to be human while a girl grows up in a junkyard. Parallel stories about identity, family, and finding where you belong.
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Klara is an artificial friend, observing the world from a store window until a girl chooses her. Ishiguro's meditation on love, sacrifice, and what makes us human.
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Madeline Ashby · 2012
Amy is a von Neumann machine—an artificial being designed to love and serve humans. But when her failsafe breaks, she must navigate a world that fears her kind.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
A terraforming experiment goes wrong, creating an evolved spider civilization. When humans arrive millennia later, two species must find a way to coexist.
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Klara is an Artificial Friend waiting in a store to be chosen. Her observations about humans are both naive and devastating. Nobel Prize-winning author at peak form.