{"product_id":"a-tale-told-by-a-machine-the-ai-narrator-in-contemporary-science-fiction-novels-9781476689326","title":"A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as \u003ci\u003eBladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHer\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine's perspective. These new portrayals of artificial intelligence inevitably foreground dilemmas related to identity and selfhood, concepts being reassessed in the 21st century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Taking a close look at novels like \u003ci\u003eAncillary Justice, Aurora, All Systems Red, The Actuality, The Unseen World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, this work investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. It describes how these narratives challenge humanist principles by suggesting that selfhood is an illusion, even as they make the case for extending these principles to machines by proposing that they are not so different from humans. The book examines what is at stake with nonhuman narration, the qualities of AI narratives, and what it might mean to relate to a narrator when the voice adopted is that of an AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Duerre Humann\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of multiple books and has contributed essays to edited collections and published articles, reviews and short stories in \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review, Women's Studies, South Atlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McFarland and Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394587988242,"sku":"9781476689326","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98b9af62-d769-484b-bd75-6e040de49fb8.jpg?v=1729010324","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-tale-told-by-a-machine-the-ai-narrator-in-contemporary-science-fiction-novels-9781476689326","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}