I have been obsessed with Robots lately and I have read: Isaac Asimovs books, "Machines Like Me" by Ian McEwan, "I have no mouth and I must scream" by Harlan Ellison and "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K. Dick. I need more. Thank you.
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I will take every opportunity to recommend “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” and “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” by Becky Chambers. One of the main characters is a delightful robot who is the first of its kind to make contact with humans in over 300 years.
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill. Set in a post apocalyptic world where robots have supplanted humanity, about a robot scavenger trying to survive in a wasteland of AI.
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Has a protagonist who is an AI consciousness inhabiting a starship navigating political intrigue and power struggles.
I enjoyed Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker – snarky time traveling cyborgs whose job is to salvage materials from the past *just* before they would have been destroyed. Apparently it’s part of a series (book 7.6?) but I haven’t read any of the others to know if they are robot based or not.
These are both series 🙂
Martha Wells – The Murderbot Diaries
C. Robert Cargill – Sea of Rust
Old school:
Stanislaw Lem – The Cyberiad
The Bobiverse series. (Strange title, great books)
A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install. It’s heartwarming without being sappy & it explores humanity’s relationship with robots & vice versa.
It’s a play, but Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR) by Karel Capek
Murderbot series by Martha Wells