The Mother Code

Carole Stivers
SF Stivers


Kai is born in America's desert Southwest. His only companion his robotic Mother, Rho-Z. Equipped with the knowledge and intuition of a human mother, Rho-Z raises Kai and teaches him how to survive. As children like him come of age, their Mothers transform, too—in ways that were never predicted. When others decide that the machines who raised the children must be destroyed, Kai must fight to save the only parent he has ever known.

AI Possible Futures

  • Sea of Rust


  • Emergent Properties


  • House of Suns


  • The Mother Code


  • Foe


  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects


  • Autonomous


  • Black holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe


  • A Closed and Common Orbit


  • Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe


  • Klara and the Sun


  • Excession