Litsy

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy | Martha Wells

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Rereading “All Systems Red” for my book club recently left me with an ART-shaped hole that needed filling. So, I reread “Artificial Condition” and enjoyed it anew 😊

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EverydayImReading

In the Blink of an Eye | Jo Callaghan

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Winner of two awards and a very unique concept especially as AI is becoming more and more part of our lives. It‘s the first of a series and sets up nicely for the next story with well drawn characters. A nice amount of humour not too cliche. I was screaming at the “missed” clues and obvious motive here that seemed deliberate so as to create the dramatic climax. Maybe there will be more finesse in the next book but I‘m not rushing to read it.

Cathythoughts Great review Sinead ! 👍🏻❤️ 1d

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julesG

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy | Martha Wells

My son bought Murderbot prints from Tommy Arnold https://www.tommyarnoldart.com/ and I just totally unprofessionally framed them.

AnnCrystal 🆒👏🏼☺️💝. 1w

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ImperfectCJ

Playground | Richard Powers

Camille giving me a high five because, after getting my elder kid and my spouse to read Playground and discuss it with me and then attending a book club about it, I have a new appreciation for what Powers is doing in this novel. I want to re-read it now that my context has evolved so I can see what else I see in it.

Leftcoastzen 🥰😻awwww! 1w

BarbaraBB One of my favorites this year! 1w

AnnCrystal 😍💕😻🐾💝. 1w

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AmyG Camille is a cutie! 1w

ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB Mine, too! I keep liking it more as time goes by. Last night during the discussion, I realized some of the similarities between this one and Death of the Author, another of my favorites this year. I also noted that I didn't at first see the similarities because the two books inspired such different feelings in me while reading. I love when those book connections happen!

Death of the Author: A Novel

Eggbeater Look at that precious face! 1w

lil1inblue 😻 😻 😻 1w

BarbaraBB That‘s interesting, I don‘t really see those similarities? Enlighten me 💛 1w

ImperfectCJ @BarbaraBB The similarities are kind of spoilers, so I'll put them in a separate comment behind a spoiler tag. 1w

ImperfectCJ It's basically just the way that an AI-created story is handled. Both deal with questions of "what is reality?" or "what is fact?", ideas around the relationship between creator and creation. Of course, while Playground is more cautionary around wealthy tech dudes using tech to abdicate responsibility for their own mistakes and to humanity at large, Death is more tech as a nuanced tool. Both speak to relationships being more important than tech. 1w

BarbaraBB Ah of course! You are so right. Thank you for getting back to me 💕 1w

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DieAReader

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI | Yuval Noah Harari

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#Read2025 #Wardens2025

🤓Highly recommend!!!

CoverToCoverGirl

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RamsFan1963

The Salvage Crew | Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

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66/100 I admit I listened to this for Nathan Fillion, I like his voice and he does a fine job as narrator. A salvage crew land on a planet seeking an older starship that crashed there. At first it's pretty lightweight, funny with a sarcastic AI, done very well by Fillion, overseeing a 3 person crew. Things quickly turn darker, and it becomes a grim tale of survival as they discover and alien AI and the people its turned into half ⬇️

RamsFan1963 machine mercenaries. Since it's the first book in a trilogy or series, the ending is pretty open. 3.25/5 ⭐ #Read2025 4w

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REPollock

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You | Janelle Shane

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Hilarious and informative. 6years old so probably outdated but a good overview of the difference technologies known collectively as AI. Surprisingly funny.

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Nessavamusic

William | Mason Coile

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A creepy but ultimately predictable AI horror. 3.5⭐️

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bookwyrm7

I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

The importance of paying attention to what is happening behind our platforms ?

"A fish doesn't know what water is; same goes for humans and the matrix"

So well put!

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