Saturday, September 14, 2024

Six sci-fi thrillers about AI

Lois Melbourne is the author of “STEM Club Goes Exploring” and “Kids Go To Work Day,” illustrated books helping students explore careers. Formerly a global software CEO, she is a pragmatic optimist willing to push the risks for technology, when it can help people. She reads and writes in an eclectic variety of genres. Melbourne serves her community through working at the voting polls, voter registration drives, and mentoring students and entrepreneurs.

Melbourne wrote her debut novel, Moral Code in collaboration with her husband Ross.

At CrimeReads she tagged six sci-fi thrillers about Artificial Intelligence, including:
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch

I love a story that challenges us to consider, would we really like the life we dream of living? The mechanisms Crouch uses in “Dark Matter” to make us consider this question are gripping and unexpected.
Read about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.

Dark Matter is among John Marrs's seven novels that effortlessly blend travel and crime.

--Marshal Zeringue