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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: tale told by a machine
    sub title: the AI narrator in contemporary science fiction novels
  name:
    name part: Humann, Heather Duerre
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 185 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, 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. Taking a close look at novels like Ancillary Justice, Aurora, All Systems Red, The Actuality, The Unseen World and Klara and the Sun, 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. It examines what is at stake with nonhuman narration, the constitutive qualities of AI narratives and what it might mean to relate to a narrator when the voice adopted is that of an AI.
  note: Heather Duerre Humann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence in literature
  subject:
    topic: Narration (Rhetoric)
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, English
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS374.S35 H85 2023
  classification: 823/.0876209
  identifier: 1476689326
  identifier: 9781476689326
  identifier: 9781476649771
  identifier: 2023019590
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230504
    record change date: 20250816185340.2
    record identifier: in00004727131