Literary AI short stories from immortal machine perspectives, darkly witty and haunting about near-future human dependence.
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Literary AI short stories from immortal machine perspectives, darkly witty and haunting about near-future human dependence.
"[Mason] writes with a mathematical precision that often crystallizes into lines of clean, poetic beauty."--Wall Street Journal Far-sighted, darkly amusing, and haunting, Fabrications is a dazzling work of literary imagination told from the perspectives of various powerful artificial intelligences, influenced by Borges and Calvino, and for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel In Fabrications, New York Times bestselling author and computer scientist Zachary Mason tells stories of a...
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Death, cloning, and high-stakes fallout; no graphic gore detailed
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AIs as kami/nature spirits; immortality and quasi-divine detachment
No fantasy magic present
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AI power, nature personhood, capitalism, and tech-mediated society
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Dementia care and human vulnerability under pervasive AI systems
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