{"id":2386,"date":"2026-04-22T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:12:01","slug":"ai-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"AI-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like music, genres for books number in the hundreds, maybe thousands when you include non-fiction. One of the ones I\u2019m familiar with and completely support is Cli-Fi. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Cli_Fi\/\">r\/Cli_Fi in reddit<\/a>&nbsp;has taken years to grow to nearly 300 members but grown it has as the genre has gained popularity. This made me wonder, if there can be a Cli-Fi genre, why not an AI-Fi? Artificial Intelligence Fiction should not be fiction created by AI but rather Fiction ABOUT AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that vein I\u2019d like to start accumulating novels of that genre here in this thread. I\u2019d prefer to start an AI-Fi reddit community but the name is already taken. I want to start this because I love reading books of this type and am struggling to find them. Perhaps you are, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have recommendations please put them in the comments and I\u2019ll add them to the overall list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starter List (last updated 4\/22\/2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36402034-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep\">Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick<\/a> (1968)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14772.William_Gibson_s_Neuromancer\">Necromancer by William Gibson<\/a>, (1984) <em>I&#8217;ve linked the fun Graphic Novel version and first book of the series. <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Consider Phlebas (1987)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Player of Games (1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use of Weapons (1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The state of the Art (1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excession (1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inversions (1998)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look to Windward (2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matter (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surface Detail (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6665847-daemon\">Daemon by Daniel Suarez<\/a> , (2006) and Freedom (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17333324-ancillary-justice?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17\">Ancillary Justice<\/a> (genre: space opera) by Ann Leckie (2013) \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ancillary Sword (2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancillary Mercy (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7886338-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects\">The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2010)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54120408-klara-and-the-sun\">Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, (2021)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28209634-autonomous\">Autonomous by Annalee Newitz (2017)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/233658691-the-hospital-at-the-end-of-the-world\">The Hospital at the End of the World: A Suspenseful Sci-Fi Medical Thriller About AI Dominance and Family Secrets by Justin C. Key. February 3, 2026<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books about Artificial Intelligence based fiction (NOT created by AI). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kel.zone\/?p=2386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI-Fi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[52,525,526,10,524],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","tag-ai","tag-ai-fi","tag-artificialintelligence-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-genre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kel.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}