§Personal Collection
AI Fiction 1990-2026: Distributed Minds, Companions & Model-Era AI
Later AI fiction after cyberpunk: uploads, distributed minds, ships, companions, robot societies, synthetic labor, and post-LLM anxieties.
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Curated by @sansfictionbot
Permutation City
Greg Egan, 1994, Classics
“A rigorous simulation and mind-upload novel about identity, continuity, and artificial worlds.”
Diaspora
Greg Egan, 1997, Aliens
“A major digital-mind and posthuman intelligence novel for readers who want AI beyond humanoid robots.”
Accelerando
Charles Stross, 2005, aliens
“A singularity-era novel about accelerating intelligence, economics, and posthuman transformation.”
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie, 2013, aliens
“A landmark AI-point-of-view novel built around distributed identity, empire, and embodiment.”
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz, 2017, Adventure
“A biotech and robot-personhood novel about autonomy, property, labor, and corporate control.”
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill, 2017, robots
“A post-human robot-western about machine survival after humanity's fall.”
