A review by bookaneer
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 by S. Qiouyi Lu, Gu Shi, Geoff Ryman, Suzanne Palmer, Sara Saab, Neil Clarke, Jess Barber, Kelly Robson, Stephanie M. Bucklin, Tom Purdom, A. Brym, Chris Urie, Eric Schwitzgebel
3.0
Rating and review only for "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer:
This is the Year of the Bots! Not less than three works are nominated for the Hugo, from short story to novelette and novella. Is this a trend now among SFF authors? With the amount of artificial intelligence roaming the earth now, it seems that our fascination about them and their evolution - self awareness, free will, agency, their hidden lives and interaction - will continue to become a familiar plot line in many years to come.
This charming story is a great example of it.
This is the Year of the Bots! Not less than three works are nominated for the Hugo, from short story to novelette and novella. Is this a trend now among SFF authors? With the amount of artificial intelligence roaming the earth now, it seems that our fascination about them and their evolution - self awareness, free will, agency, their hidden lives and interaction - will continue to become a familiar plot line in many years to come.
This charming story is a great example of it.