The Most Messed Up Book About Robot Consciousness Ever

Madeline Ashby's new book vN is inevitably going to be compared to Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and its movie adaptation, Blade Runner. There's even a cheeky section where the robot heroine goes to work at a robot-themed restaurant called the Electric Sheep, where a lot of the menu items have…

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Ted Chiang redefines how everybody will write about artificial…

Science fiction's full of wishful thinking about artificial intelligence: It'll spring up on its own. It'll become smarter than us in no time. Ted Chiang's new novella, The Life Cycle of Software Objects, will change how you think about A.I.

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Don't Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead!

There's only one thing Hollywood loves than a movie based on a toy: remakes. Dozens of science-fiction classics are slated for do-overs. But instead of remaking films that were fine the first time, here are 20 books Hollywood should film.

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Amy Thomson Gives Good Alien

harsel.jpg If you're sick of reading about aliens who seem like thinly-veiled references to races or nationalities on Earth, then it's time for you to dip into the novels of Amy Thomson. She's best known for her novels The Color of Distance and Through Alien Eyes, both about creatures called the Tendu who speak squid-style…

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