Space operas! Ever the space operas. I'll take a space opera over hard scifi any day, though if a story can trick me into reading speculative technology projected to be possible 100 years in the future I'm all for it. If my icon+AO3 hasn't given it away already I've actually done some stuff with Transformers, which has had a recent comics run that was less of "toy ads for kids" and more "silly adventures in space with some ruminations on the costs of war," and honestly was better than a transformers comic had a right to be. Data from Star Trek: TNG, is another one that drew me in to the whole android character thing. As for books, the ones that have recently set the bar for me are the Ancillary Justice trilogy by Ann Leckie and the novella series Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I've been low-key searching for anything that fits in the same niche with those for a while. I'm that the original Ghost in the Shell will be right up my alley, but I haven't actually had the chance to sit down and watch it, sadly.
I don't get as interested in the whole "can robots think/can robots feel" question that a lot of scifi in the vein of I, Robot poses. Most of my favorite android scifi fully accepts the anthropomorphizing and just explores that. There's a lot of essays I've seen around about what AI/robots are a metaphor for (and some things miss the metaphor part and just smack you in the face with it, Detroit: Become Human), but my favorite part of an android/AI/etc POV character is the way it's often accompanied by a narrative of learning to connect with and process emotions, or processing information differently from the people around you. It's just kind of a narrative that fits my brain.
I'd probably take it in a direction like that for a wolfstar AU, though Isa's done a really fun wolfstar-turned-ofic version that'd be hard to live up to, I think.
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Space operas! Ever the space operas. I'll take a space opera over hard scifi any day, though if a story can trick me into reading speculative technology projected to be possible 100 years in the future I'm all for it. If my icon+AO3 hasn't given it away already I've actually done some stuff with Transformers, which has had a recent comics run that was less of "toy ads for kids" and more "silly adventures in space with some ruminations on the costs of war," and honestly was better than a transformers comic had a right to be. Data from Star Trek: TNG, is another one that drew me in to the whole android character thing. As for books, the ones that have recently set the bar for me are the Ancillary Justice trilogy by Ann Leckie and the novella series Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I've been low-key searching for anything that fits in the same niche with those for a while. I'm that the original Ghost in the Shell will be right up my alley, but I haven't actually had the chance to sit down and watch it, sadly.
I don't get as interested in the whole "can robots think/can robots feel" question that a lot of scifi in the vein of I, Robot poses. Most of my favorite android scifi fully accepts the anthropomorphizing and just explores that. There's a lot of essays I've seen around about what AI/robots are a metaphor for (and some things miss the metaphor part and just smack you in the face with it, Detroit: Become Human), but my favorite part of an android/AI/etc POV character is the way it's often accompanied by a narrative of learning to connect with and process emotions, or processing information differently from the people around you. It's just kind of a narrative that fits my brain.
I'd probably take it in a direction like that for a wolfstar AU, though Isa's done a really fun wolfstar-turned-ofic version that'd be hard to live up to, I think.