Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?

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Book Review| March 17 2023 Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine? Speak. By Louisa Hall. New York: Ecco. 2015. 336 pp. Cloth $23.95; paper $15.42; e-book $12.49.Prey of Gods. By Nicky Drayden. New York: Harper Voyager. 2017. 400 pp. Paper $15.99; e-book $12.99.vN. By Madeline Ashby. Nottingham: Angry Robot. 2012. 416 pp. Paper $12.99; e-book $6.99.iD. By Madeline Ashby. Nottingham: Angry Robot. 2013. 320 pp. Paper $14.99; e-book $6.99.reV. By Madeline Ashby. Nottingham: Angry Robot. 2020. 381 pp. Paper $15.52; e-book $6.99.All Systems Red. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2017. 156 pp. Cloth $11.69; paper $15.99; e-book $4.99.Artificial Condition. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2018. 149 pp. Cloth $14.99; e-book $10.99.Rogue Protocol. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2018. 150 pp. Cloth $11.63; e-book $10.99.Exit Strategy. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2018. 163 pp. Cloth $11.6; e-book $10.99.Network Effect. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2020. 348 pp. Cloth $15.29; paper $13.99; e-book $11.99.Fugitive Telemetry. By Martha Wells. New York: Tordotcom. 2021. 172 pp. Cloth $16.39; e-book $15.99.Machines like Me. By Ian McEwan. New York: Nan A. Talese. 2019. 352 pp. Cloth $15.56; paper $9.89; e-book $11.99.Frankissstein: A Love Story. By Jeannette Winterson. New York: Grove Press. 2019. 352 pp. Cloth $6.20; paper $15.10; e-book $12.99.Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Our Future. By Lavanya Lakshiminarayan. Delhi: Hachette India. 2020. 312 pp. Paper $12.45.Burn-In. By P. W. Singer and August Cole. New York: Mariner Books. 2020. 432 pp. Cloth $12.69; paper $10.67; e-book $10.49.Machinehood. By S. B. Divya. New York: Saga Press. 2021. 416 pp. Cloth $23.99; paper $16.69; e-book $13.99.A Psalm for the Wild-Built. By Becky Chambers. New York: Tordotcom. 2021. 160 pp. Cloth $18.89; e-book $10.99.Klara and the Sun. By Kazuo Ishiguro. New York: Knopf, 2021. 320 pp. Cloth $13.89; paper $15.26; e-book $12.99. Sherryl Vint Sherryl Vint Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she directs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is an editor for the journal Science Fiction Studies and the book series Science in Popular Culture. She has published widely on science fiction, including, most recently, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021) and Programming the Future: Speculative Television and the End of Democracy (2022, co-authored with Jonathan Alexander). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature 10575176. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575176 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sherryl Vint; Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?. American Literature 2023; 10575176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575176 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press2023 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.