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Culpability
by Bruce Holsinger
The family minivan was driving itself when it killed two people. Everyone in it has a different idea of who is to blame.
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A self-driving car, a fatal crash, and a family that spends the following week discovering how little they agree about responsibility.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
The Cassidy-Shaws are on their way to a lacrosse tournament when the autonomous minivan hits another car. Holsinger braids the aftermath with excerpts from the mother's unpublished manuscript on machine ethics, and the two documents slowly indict each other.
The editorial feature
The most convincing novel yet written about living with artificial intelligence, largely because it treats the technology as furniture rather than plot device. Tense, tightly plotted and morally unresolved in the right way.
Book details
- Genre
- Thriller
- Released
- 8 July 2025
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Featured on
- 8 July 2025
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