
Novels that imagine life with thinking machines
Fiction that helps us feel what the future might be like.
Essential reading

Fiction that helps us feel what the future might be like.

Our pick of the year in books about technology and society.
A quiet novel about an artificial friend, and what we owe each other.

If you only have one evening, start with the first pick. If you have a weekend, work through the list in order; each one builds on the ideas…



What is a mind? Five accessible books to start thinking about it.

Picture books and early readers that make AI understandable, without the hype.

We read three novels drafted with AI. Here is what worked and what did not.