shig, 14 days ago

@Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 Don’t listen to them, Droney. I’m rooting for ya.

Stories like the Murderbot series may represent part of a gradual shift, as science fiction ponderously reorients itself to the direction reality seems to be moving in.

nyrath, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

@shig

There is actually something written earlier. In 1942.
The Wabbler by Murray Leinster

Synopsis: An artificially intelligent weapon's story, told from the point of view of the weapon.

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46584

60sRefugee, 13 days ago

@nyrath @shig Or every artificial intelligence story back to "Frankenstein" warning us about creating untrustworthy devices with their own agency:

nyrath, 13 days ago

@shig

If anybody is interested in reading The Wabbler by Murray Leinster, it can be found online here

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v30n02_1942-10_dtsg0318/page/n84/mode/1up