* The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie. You can start either with Ancillary Justice or with Provenance.
* The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
* A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. It is second in a series, but for the most part works as a standalone novel. It follows the story of side characters introduced in the first book, one of whom is an AI.
* Not a novel, but a novella. The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang.
* Excession by Iain M. Banks. Though it says this is part of a series, every book in the Culture series completely works as a stand alone story. This one is about the Minds, AIs that run the Culture.
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Murderbot series by Martha Wells
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It’s a play not a book but Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek is the first robot story and is what coined the word robot
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Robots of Gotham was cool
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Sea of Rust by Robert Cargill
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The *Monk and Robot* duology by Becky Chambers, *A Pslam for the Wild-Built* and *A Prayer for the Crown-Shy*. They’re some of my all-time favorite books, and they’re set in a world where, 300 years ago, all the robots of the world suddenly became sentient, and decided to break away from humanity to live in the wilderness. The story then follows the first contact between a human and a robot since “the awakening.” These are short books – less than 200 pages each – and are pure solarpunk. They made me cry, but in the best way.
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* The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie. You can start either with Ancillary Justice or with Provenance.
* The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
* A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. It is second in a series, but for the most part works as a standalone novel. It follows the story of side characters introduced in the first book, one of whom is an AI.
* Not a novel, but a novella. The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang.
* Excession by Iain M. Banks. Though it says this is part of a series, every book in the Culture series completely works as a stand alone story. This one is about the Minds, AIs that run the Culture.
Murderbot series by Martha Wells
It’s a play not a book but Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek is the first robot story and is what coined the word robot
Robots of Gotham was cool
Sea of Rust by Robert Cargill
The *Monk and Robot* duology by Becky Chambers, *A Pslam for the Wild-Built* and *A Prayer for the Crown-Shy*. They’re some of my all-time favorite books, and they’re set in a world where, 300 years ago, all the robots of the world suddenly became sentient, and decided to break away from humanity to live in the wilderness. The story then follows the first contact between a human and a robot since “the awakening.” These are short books – less than 200 pages each – and are pure solarpunk. They made me cry, but in the best way.