Mother of Invention - Softcover

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9781922101471: Mother of Invention
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1922101478 ISBN 13: 9781922101471
Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press, 2018

Synopsis

A speculative fiction anthology of diverse, challenging stories about gender and artificial intelligence.

From Pygmalion and Galatea to Frankenstein, Ex Machina and Person of Interest, the fictional landscape so often frames cisgender men as the creators of artificial life, leading to the same kinds of stories being told over and over. We want to bring some genuine revolution to the way that artificial intelligence stories are told, and how they intersect with gender identity, parenthood, sexuality, war, and the future of our species. How can we interrogate the gendered assumptions around the making of robots compared with the making of babies? Can computers learn to speak in a code beyond the (gender) binary?

If necessity is the mother of invention, what exciting AI might come to exist in the hands of a more diverse range of innovators?

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Review

"All of the familiar tropes of mad science and the creation of artificial life get turned on their heads in the most gloriously feminist way in Mother of Invention. It turns out when the person who's Playing God is female, the story suddenly gets a lot more interesting." - Charlie Jane Anders

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Publisher
Twelfth Planet Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1922101478
ISBN 13 
9781922101471
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
396
Editor
Rafael Rivqa, Roberts Tansy Rayner
Rating
  • 4.02 out of 5 stars
    66 ratings by Goodreads