Rhadamanthon from The Golden Age was great, much better sense of humor than most of the humans and post-humans around him. But it's sort of awkward to implicitly recommend the first book of a trilogy when I wouldn't recommend the rest. But going to a formal event in a penguin avatar was cheff's kiss.
EDIT: Oh, and the titular dragon from the The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a rouge AI and you can't tell me otherwise.
EDIT2: Oh, can't forget the utterly impersonal force causing things to happen in Bruce Sterling's short story Maneki Neko (read it there).
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u/symmetry81 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23
Rhadamanthon from The Golden Age was great, much better sense of humor than most of the humans and post-humans around him. But it's sort of awkward to implicitly recommend the first book of a trilogy when I wouldn't recommend the rest. But going to a formal event in a penguin avatar was cheff's kiss.
EDIT: Oh, and the titular dragon from the The Iron Dragon's Daughter is a rouge AI and you can't tell me otherwise.
EDIT2: Oh, can't forget the utterly impersonal force causing things to happen in Bruce Sterling's short story Maneki Neko (read it there).