AI in Fiction

If you have suggestions of other books to add, please send me email, with the author's name and the book's title. Thank you!

Note: There are books on this list that contain "adult material" (i.e., sex, violence, or politics). If you wish to avoid material you are likely to find offensive, ask me, someone else, or read reviews of the book on amazon.com. However, take care not to copy those reviews.

• Isaac Asimov, *I, Robot
• David Ambrose, Mother of God
• Greg Bear, *Slant
• John Brunner,
  • *Stand on Zanzibar
  • Shockwave Rider
• Pat Cadigan, *Synners
Orson Scott Card,
• *Ender's Game
• *Speaker for the Dead
• *Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• Arthur C. Clarke, *2001 : A Space Odyssey
• Samuel Delany, Babel 17
• Phillip K. Dick,
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • The Second Model
• G. Egan, Diaspora
• D. Eggers, *The Circle
• E.M. Forster, When the Machine Stops [short story]
• David Gardiner, Sirat
• David Gerrold *When Harlie Was One
• William Gibson * Neuromancer
• Robert Heinlein, *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Frank Herbert, Destination: Void
• James P. Hogan,
  • Code of the Lifemaker
  • Smoking Mirror Blues
  • Two Faces of Tomorrow
• D. Jones, Colossus
• Janet Kagan, *Hellspark
• Chris Moriarty,
  • *Spin State
  • *Spin Control
• Maureen McHugh, *China Mountain Zhang
• Marge Piercy, *He, She, and It
• Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
• Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
• Brad Quentin, The War of the Wizards
• Rudy V.B. Rucker,
  • The Hacker and the Ants
  • Software
  • Wetware
• Mary Doria Russell, * The Sparrow
• Melissa Scott:
  
  • *The Jazz
    
  • *Dreaming Metal
    
  • *Dreamships
    
  • *Trouble and Her Friends
• T. Sherred, E for Effort
• Dan Simmons, *The Fall of Hyperion
• J. Sladek
  • T. Reproductive System
  • T. Steam-Driven Boy
  • T. Muller-Fokker Effect
  • Roderick/Roderick at Random
  • Tik Tok
  • Bugs
• Joan Slonczewski,
  • *Daughters of Elysium
  • *Brain Plague
• M. Smith, Only Forward
• Neal Stephenson,
  • *Diamond Age
    
  • *Snow Crash
• Charles Stross,
  • *Halting State
  • Rule 34
  • Accelerando
• Thomas T. Thomas, Me: A Novel of Self-Discovery
• Vernor Vinge, Rainbow's End
• Scott Westerfeld, *Extras

Here are a few that I think have too little technical content to be used (included to preclude your suggesting them): Diane Duane, *Omnitopia Dawn, William Gibson, *Idoru; Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, The Turing Option: The Novel; Tanith Lee, *The Silver Metal Lover; Astro Teller, *Exegesis.

* I have read this book.

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