For the past fourteen months, our lives and attention spans have been full of knitted robots, intelligent spaceships, living computer programs and living creatures built out of sugar. Although our focus in our new anthology, Mother of Invention, was on the creators of artificial intelligences and robots, several of our authors rose to the challenge of writing in the point of view of the AI. It’s a special challenge for writers, but so rewarding when done well.
Both of us love this theme as readers too, so here we’re sharing some of our favourites.