Thomas Anthony Fiction & Practical Guides

The Odra Series

Essays

Essays on the questions underneath the series — written as a novelist working through them, not as a technical authority.

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When Does an Artificial Intelligence Become a Person?

The questions fiction lets us ask before the answer becomes a policy decision.

Reading Group Guides

Discussion questions for book clubs, classrooms, and seminars.

The Odra Series The Odra Trilogy Reading Group GuideDiscussion questions for all three books, plus seminar pairings and essay prompts — free to reproduce.

Personhood

What makes a mind someone, and who gets to decide.

The Odra Series Memory, Identity, and What Remains of a PersonDeletion is dramatic. Erosion is what actually happens — and it arrives as a series of sensible decisions. The Odra Series When Does an Artificial Intelligence Become a Person?The questions fiction lets us ask before the answer becomes a policy decision.

AI Ethics

Why the moral questions arrive before the technical answers.

The Odra Series Why Fiction Is a Powerful Way to Think About AI EthicsWhat a novel can do with a moral question that an argument, a paper, or a policy cannot.

Systems & Interdependence

The failures that live between things nobody owns.

The Odra Series The Danger Between Systems: Why Interdependence Makes Compelling Climate FictionThe real infrastructure risk is not a storm. It is the space between systems that nobody owns.

The Form Itself

What literary speculative fiction is, and why it suits these questions.

The Odra Series What Is Literary Speculative Fiction?A working definition, what it is not, and how to tell whether you are going to like it.