Souls in Silicon: Tales of AI Confronting the Infinite

Duntemann, Jeff. Souls in Silicon: Tales of AI Confronting the Infinite. As of 2019, Scottsdale, AZ: Copperwood Press, 2016. For bibliographic information and reviews, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of February 2023, here.[1]

Collection of short stories by Duntemann, plus one novella by Duntemann and Nancy Kris: "Borovsky's Hollow Woman" (1983) and a novelette, "Marlowe" (1982) by Duntemann.

Stories:

"Guardian" • (1980) • 
"The Steel Sonnets" • (1975) •
"Silicon Psalm" • (1981) •
"Bathtub Mary" • (1993) • 
"STORMY vs. the Tornadoes" • (variant of "STORMY Versus the Tornadoes 1990")
"Sympathy on the Loss of One of Your Legs" •

Reviewed briefly by "James" on GoodReads, as of 1 March 2023 available on line here.[2]

From Alana Joli Abbott's review in Mythopoetic Society on line: "Duntemann has great insight into what it means to be ensoulled and how humans might react to AI were it to become so.""[This review originally appeared in Mythprint 47:10 (#339) in October 2010.]"[3][4]

RDE, finishing, 17Feb21