anthologies Summer Days and Summer Nights, Shards and Ashes, and Three Sides of a Heart. The Divergent Series was developed into three major motion pictures.Roth grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time.
Her new book is The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future.
At Tor.com Roth tagged "five stories that explore a piece of futuristic technology—for better, worse, or a mix of both," including:
Lightless by CA HigginsRead about another entry on the list.
Lightless combines two different stories on one spaceship: one is the detailed interrogation of a suspected terrorist imprisoned on the Ananke, and the other is a computer scientist’s desperate attempts to repair the Ananke itself (infected at thebeginning of the book by the aforementioned suspected terrorist). The interrogation—which is tense and fascinating, by the way—takes up the majority of the book’s attention, but it would be a mistake to ignore Althea’s wrestling with the ship, particularly as it results in the birth of an AI with a wealth of personality. (And I mean that more in an oh-god-what-is-it-going-to-do kind of way than a sassy robot kind of way.) The next two books in this trilogy are concerned with the AI’s development and desires, the tension between her godlike intelligence and humanlike volatility, but Lightless is her origin story, the tale of how a virus and a computer scientist created something beyond anyone’s expectations.
The Page 69 Test: Lightless.
--Marshal Zeringue
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