Robot Separatists: The Best Stories About A.I.s Leaving Humanity Behind
When we finally create artificial intelligences and supersmart robots, everybody expects the very next thing they’ll try and do is wipe out humanity. Right? Maybe not. Some artificial creations just want to be left alone, to do their own thing. Here’s our semi-complete list of stories about robot separatists. Top image: Mass Effect. Note: These…
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Charlie Jane Anders and Jason Krell
Some of the Coolest Space War Stories You’ve Ever Seen
War and Space: Recent Combat, from editors Rich Horton and Sean Wallace is possibly one of the finest anthologies that I’ve ever come across. This anthology looks at the nature of war, and how it might impact our future civilizations in space. Fans of high-octane stories with lots of action might be let down by…
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Andrew Liptak