pling
2/23/2014
Asher's Polity series are set a few hundred years in the future when humans have colonised many different worlds, with the help of teleportation devices called runcibles. There are lots of AIs - some run the runcibles, some run ships, some run cities, some run planets, they're pretty ubiquitous. And you can be linked into the network to interact directly with these AI (only as a government agent, I think) - which is called being gridlinked. As well as being space opera, I think of this book as having some of the same flavour as William Gibson's earlier stuff - only it's cyberpunk of the 2000s not cyberpunk of the 1980s.
Click the link below to read my full review.
http://ninecats.org/margaret/blog/2013/01/09/gridlinked-neal-asher