Highline College Library: Imagining AI Futures through Literature and Art: Reading: Short Stories, Books and More

Short Stories and Other Readings

Cyber-proletarian (by Claudia Salazar-Jimenez; translated by George Henson)
In this short story, an AI robot destroys her creator and develops a plan to pass as human and develop a fertility treatment to change human reproductive nature.
Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867 (by Kim Fu)
This short story features a world where characters can experience vivid dream simulations to experiences fantasies far from reality.
Valedictorian (by N.K. Jemisin)
In this short story set in a dystopian future, high school academic success can lead to a future intertwined with AI.

Books

Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood rites, Imago complete trilogy by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: 813.54 B986L 2007
ISBN: 0446676101
Main Collection--4th Floor
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: 813.6 O41b 2015
ISBN: 9780765385253
Main Collection--4th Floor
Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: 813.6 O41bh 2017
ISBN: 9780765393111
Main Collection--4th Floor
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: 823.914 I79k 2022
ISBN: 0593311299
Main Collection--4th Floor
Africa Risen by Sheree Renee Thomas; Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Zelda Knight
Call Number: 823.087608 A258 2022
ISBN: 1250833000
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How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
Call Number: 813.6 J49h 2018
ISBN: 9780316491341
Main Collection--4th Floor
New Suns by Nisi Shawl (Editor); Rebecca Roanhorse; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Darcie Little Badger; Tobias S. Buckell; Minsoo Kang; Jaymee Goh; Indrapramit Das; E. Lily Yu; Karin Lowachee; LeVar Burton (Foreword by); Kathleen Alcalá; Steven Barnes; Chinelo Onwual; Alex Jennings; Alberto Yáñez; Anil Menon; Andrea Hairston; Hiromi Goto
Call Number: 813.0108 N532 2019
ISBN: 1781085781
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha; Adrienne Maree Brown (editors)
Call Number: 808.838762 O21 2015
ISBN: 9781849352093
Main Collection--4th Floor
Also available online through EBSCO eBook Collection
Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction by K. M. Szpara (editor)
Call Number: 823.0108T772 2016
ISBN: 9781590216170
Main Collection--4th Floor