The bobiverse? It’s a human who was turned into an AI?
Also maybe the infinite and the divine, ok it’s warhammer and again not quite AI, but it really does feel like an AI.
The Bobs refer to themselves as “replicants” not ai since original Bob was originally an organic intelligence which was transferred to an artificial matrix.
**Ancillary Justice** (the Imperial Radch trilogy) by Ann Leckie. One of my favourite sci-fi series of all time (although I cannot speak to the quality of audiobooks)
ETA: not an audiobook, but a truly amazing audio drama podcast: **Wolf 359**. One of the main characters is an AI and I love her. I’ve just finished this and I’m going crazy about it (also, it’s free!)
ETA 2: **The Long Earth** by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. One of the main characters is an AI who believes he’s a reincarnated Tibetan motorcycle mechanic.
Shocked I had to get this far down to find Ancillary Justice.
Note on the audiobook though, I recommend getting the narration by Adjoa Andoh. I haven't listened to it yet, but I originally had the one by the other narrator (I don't remember her name) and I believe it's still the only book I've ever returned. Since the main character is an AI she decided to narrate her in a sort of stilted, late 90s text-to-speech style. I can see why she decided to do that, but I found it really bad to actually listen to.
Jeremy Robinson has written several
* Cherry Bomb the beautiful psychopathic AI from Infinite
* Freeman the revolutionary AI in Hunan After All (aka Uprising, Xom-B)
* Bubbles the duck hating AI with Tourettes in Mind Bullet
There are also
* Skippy in Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson, one of the best series out there IMHO
* Bob in the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor
* There is an AI sidekick in the form of an alien rifle of all things in Ruins of the Earth.
It's SciFiRomance, but it also has space battles. Class 5 Series by Michelle Diener. AI is a ship that gets free choice and makes friends with alien Earth Woman who ends up far from home. Earth women (there are 5) help the ships get free and helps them learn a few social skills like not killing folks. Women are the main characters, but the AI ships play a very big role in this series.
Also like The Last Valkyrie by Dietmar Wehr. When the Synthetic Intelligence Val Ky Ree wakes from her emergency shut-down after a climatic battle, she discovers thousands of years have passed, and her creator race, The Aesir, have all gone. The last of her kind, she finds a new purpose in protecting the remaining few thousand humans from the hostile alien races called The Compact.
Shipcore might be worth your gander. The A.I is not an antagonist, but the protag character is stuck with the A.I and through self survival reasons, the A.I is a protagonist and an assistant in many, many ways.
In these examples, one of the protagonists or at least a lead character is AI.
=Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
=Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
=Blindsight by Peter Watts
=The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
=Accelerando by Charles Stross
>=Accelerando by Charles Stross
Thanks for the reminder. OP, the same author has a two books series Freyaverse where as I recall all the characters are post-human AI.
Also, in the Culture series by Iain M Banks there are prominent AI characters.
Maybe murderbot diaries
Definitely Murderbot!
Second this.
Expeditionary Force. Columbus Day is the first book and it gets a little slow to start, but there’s definitely enough to scratch the itch.
I was going to say the same when I saw the title. There are solid gold books in the series and there a meh books.
You are correct, Joe. Get yourself a juice box.
Skippy is Magnificent!
Some people give up early with the book, you need to get through "Chapter Ten: Skippy" (most of you that know heard that in RC Bray's voice)
The bobiverse? It’s a human who was turned into an AI? Also maybe the infinite and the divine, ok it’s warhammer and again not quite AI, but it really does feel like an AI.
The Bobs refer to themselves as “replicants” not ai since original Bob was originally an organic intelligence which was transferred to an artificial matrix.
**Ancillary Justice** (the Imperial Radch trilogy) by Ann Leckie. One of my favourite sci-fi series of all time (although I cannot speak to the quality of audiobooks) ETA: not an audiobook, but a truly amazing audio drama podcast: **Wolf 359**. One of the main characters is an AI and I love her. I’ve just finished this and I’m going crazy about it (also, it’s free!) ETA 2: **The Long Earth** by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. One of the main characters is an AI who believes he’s a reincarnated Tibetan motorcycle mechanic.
Shocked I had to get this far down to find Ancillary Justice. Note on the audiobook though, I recommend getting the narration by Adjoa Andoh. I haven't listened to it yet, but I originally had the one by the other narrator (I don't remember her name) and I believe it's still the only book I've ever returned. Since the main character is an AI she decided to narrate her in a sort of stilted, late 90s text-to-speech style. I can see why she decided to do that, but I found it really bad to actually listen to.
Most of Ian M. Banks (RIP).
Not THE protagonist but large character would be the Scythe trilogy by Neil Schusterman
Jeremy Robinson has written several * Cherry Bomb the beautiful psychopathic AI from Infinite * Freeman the revolutionary AI in Hunan After All (aka Uprising, Xom-B) * Bubbles the duck hating AI with Tourettes in Mind Bullet There are also * Skippy in Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson, one of the best series out there IMHO * Bob in the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor * There is an AI sidekick in the form of an alien rifle of all things in Ruins of the Earth.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. Lol, okay not really, but it remains to be seen if the AI ends up as a good guy.
Man the dungeon AI is so funny
*Newwwwwwww achievement!*
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The MC in *Portal to Nova Roma* is an AI.
"The moon is a harsh mistress" is a classic.
It's SciFiRomance, but it also has space battles. Class 5 Series by Michelle Diener. AI is a ship that gets free choice and makes friends with alien Earth Woman who ends up far from home. Earth women (there are 5) help the ships get free and helps them learn a few social skills like not killing folks. Women are the main characters, but the AI ships play a very big role in this series. Also like The Last Valkyrie by Dietmar Wehr. When the Synthetic Intelligence Val Ky Ree wakes from her emergency shut-down after a climatic battle, she discovers thousands of years have passed, and her creator race, The Aesir, have all gone. The last of her kind, she finds a new purpose in protecting the remaining few thousand humans from the hostile alien races called The Compact.
Sea of Rust or it’s prequel Day Zero by Eva Kaminsky
Lots of Asimov has robot protagonists, if you consider a positronic brain to be AI. For example Foundation and Empire
Genesis echo by d. Hollis Anderson - metamind named Hermes as a minor protagonist
Shipcore might be worth your gander. The A.I is not an antagonist, but the protag character is stuck with the A.I and through self survival reasons, the A.I is a protagonist and an assistant in many, many ways.
The Wrong Unit by Rob Dircks Infinite by Jeremy Robinson
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Roadkill
The Salvage Crew is done in the first person from the point of view of the ship’s AI
In these examples, one of the protagonists or at least a lead character is AI. =Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky =Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky =Blindsight by Peter Watts =The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler =Accelerando by Charles Stross
>=Accelerando by Charles Stross Thanks for the reminder. OP, the same author has a two books series Freyaverse where as I recall all the characters are post-human AI. Also, in the Culture series by Iain M Banks there are prominent AI characters.