looks at the dangers and compromises inherent in unchecked technological advances, something he started in previous books Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant. A Guardian reviewer even suggested these three novels are in fact a trilogy, looking at the darker side of technology.
It is interesting to me that novels I have enjoyed with AI characters (Klara and the Sun, Machines and Me by Ian McEwan and The Murderbot Diaries, a series by Martha Wells) all explore the issues of human/AI interaction and loneliness, both human and AI. Murderbot, a cyborg and the main character in the popular SciFi series, draws upon 1,000s of hours of soap operas he has watched, looking for scenarios to use as a guide in his interactions with humans. I’ve never been a soap fan, but my mother loved The Young and the Restless, and I laugh every time I think of someone using that as a model for human behavior! Klara and the Sun and Never Let me Go, both by Kazuo Ishiguro, are shelved in the Fiction section of the Coffman Library. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, Machines and Me by Ian McEwan, and the eight titles in The Murderbot Dairies are all at the Ramsey County Public Library. Comments are closed.
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