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The problem is it's hard to tell compelling stories without people.


Greg Egan is a master of this (making compelling hard scifi stories where the characters aren't the great american novel quality, still fine though).


diaspora by greg egan is a good example


Stories for robots by robots

"Will the security update finish before we're discovered and killed by the hunter seeker, stay tuned to find out more!"


Nah, stories for robots by robots would probably be more like "can we gently and patiently explain to humans that all their problems come from their own lack of understanding without them turning on us"


Basically, Murderbot.


Murderbot diaries is sooo good.

It does such a good job building a convincing world, and its really good in just not going into details that it can't speak on (like how interplanetary travel works), while some of it's takes (e.g. small anti-personel drones) seem almost prescient after Ukraine.

All the synthetic biology and even the depictions of AIs and their struggles are really compelling, too.


There's a lot of fun stories about transforming robots but people tend to age out of them.




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