AI Fiction 1990-2026: Distributed Minds, Companions & Model-Era AI

Ann Leckie · 2013

A landmark AI-point-of-view novel built around distributed identity, empire, and embodiment.

Annalee Newitz · 2017

A biotech and robot-personhood novel about autonomy, property, labor, and corporate control.

C. Robert Cargill · 2017

A post-human robot-western about machine survival after humanity's fall.

Ian McEwan · 2019

A literary android novel that uses alternate history to examine AI, consent, judgment, and moral rigidity.

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2019

A quiet companion-AI novel that asks what artificial care can see, misunderstand, and still meaningfully give.

Ray Nayler · 2022

A contemporary consciousness novel linking AI questions to nonhuman intelligence and corporate extraction.

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024

A recent robot-bureaucracy satire about automation after institutional meaning has collapsed.