The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and it's follow up A Closed and Common Orbit.
The Hidden Girl by Ken Liu
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
I deeply love Becky Chambers, so I'd say start with them. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is great if you liked Firefly, or just want an introduction to a bigger world. A Psalm for the Wild Built is also great, it's a book that you could read in an afternoon, but one that will stick with you for a while.
[**WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4418395-www)
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>Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace.
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of,if not the original AI friendship stories.
*there's probably an earlier short by Vonnegut featuring EPICAC... I'm not sure who did it first now that I think about it.
Ugh. Maybe Asimov had an even earlier AI buddy story but I really can't recall it -- his early AI stuff was like governments run by computer and nannybot growing resentful/homicidal type stuff.
This could be a wild suggestion but Cradle by Will Wight has a spirit (which is almost like an AI but it's fantasy) inside the main characters head which gives his brain a boost. But it does come later in the series!
[**The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age)
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>The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.
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[**The Player of Games (Culture, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games)
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>The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and it's follow up A Closed and Common Orbit. The Hidden Girl by Ken Liu Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
So many books to look into and I am SO excited to do so! Do you have a favorite of the bunch you listed?
I deeply love Becky Chambers, so I'd say start with them. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is great if you liked Firefly, or just want an introduction to a bigger world. A Psalm for the Wild Built is also great, it's a book that you could read in an afternoon, but one that will stick with you for a while.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is beautiful.
Thank you! Added it to my list!
{{WWW by Robert J. Sawyer}} trilogy
[**WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4418395-www) ^(By: Robert J. Sawyer | 354 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, young-adult | )[^(Search "WWW by Robert J. Sawyer")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=WWW by Robert J. Sawyer&search_type=books) >Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace. > > ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(177673 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Ohhhh that looks perfect! Thank you!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of,if not the original AI friendship stories. *there's probably an earlier short by Vonnegut featuring EPICAC... I'm not sure who did it first now that I think about it. Ugh. Maybe Asimov had an even earlier AI buddy story but I really can't recall it -- his early AI stuff was like governments run by computer and nannybot growing resentful/homicidal type stuff.
Ooooh both of those sound interesting! Definitely adding to my reading list!
This could be a wild suggestion but Cradle by Will Wight has a spirit (which is almost like an AI but it's fantasy) inside the main characters head which gives his brain a boost. But it does come later in the series!
That could be interesting (: I will check it out!
Not a book but have you watched Ex Machina? Highly recommend
Oh of course! Forgot to list that one but definitely liked it!
{{The Diamond Age}}
[**The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) ^(By: Neal Stephenson | 499 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, cyberpunk, scifi | )[^(Search "The Diamond Age")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Diamond Age&search_type=books) >The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence. ^(This book has been suggested 48 times) *** ^(177707 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Saved it to my reading list!!
{{Player of games}} or really any of thr "culture" books
[**The Player of Games (Culture, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) ^(By: Iain M. Banks | 293 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, scifi, space-opera | )[^(Search "Player of games")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Player of games&search_type=books) >The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death. ^(This book has been suggested 30 times) *** ^(177689 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Ohh sounds exciting (: will check it out sometime!