Justin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the debut novel The Hospital at the End of the World and the story collection The World Wasn’t Ready for You. His stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and on Tor.com. He received a BA in biology from Stanford University and completed his residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
At Lit Hub Key tagged nine favorite depictions of AI in fiction, including:
Read about the other entries on the list.Cortana (Eric Nylund, Halo: The Fall of Reach)
My favorite AI sidekick. She’s what we hope Siri or Alexa will one day be, a companion that can feed us all the information we need in any given situation, hack into alien computer systems, and brew our morning coffee all while keeping it entertaining. I was first introduced to her not in the video game, but in the written prequel, which I devoured before while I waited for 2001’s Christmas to come.
--Marshal Zeringue
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