I've always loved robot stories as a kid. I've always shamelessly anthropomorphized my cars, my tools. I really fell in love with the idea of a sentient plane. Skyfire and I could be Damn Good Camping Buddies. I'm sure of it.
I'm not great with comic books — I find them hard to read. I know there are Transformer novels, but that's not what I'm looking for. Are there "Transformers" stories out there, preferably set in a more modern setting? (I've read a lot of the old stuff aimed at kids from the 1960s and 1970s, but feel free to hit me with a quick list of classics if I'm missing something.)
by Peliquin
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Psalm for the Wild Built – Becky Chambers.
Admittedly, it’s not an action packed robot adventure. But it’s whimsical, speculative, and reflective. A beautiful short read for where you want to ponder on where you’re going in life.
I’ve also never read this, but Murderbot by Martha Wells is supposed to be great. It’s about a killing machine who becomes sentient.
I will always recommend h{{Murderbot Diaries}} to anyone
Iain M. Banks has written a set of far future scifi novels called The Culture books. Sometimes they are referred to as a “series” but they are all actually true standalones: different characters in each, unrelated storylines.
One of my favorite aspects of these books are these huge conscious spaceships. These ship “Minds” appear to varying degrees in multiple books (maybe all, I forget), but especially in *Excession* and *Hydrogen Sonata*.