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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 13 2019, @01:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the cell-ular-automaton dept.

March: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor

Discuss The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein in the comments below.

Fiasco was translated into English in 1988 by Michael Kandel:

Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. The failure to communicate with an alien civilization is the main theme of the book.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:40PM (#800725)

    Repeatedly? Granted it's been a while since I've read the entire Heinlein library, but I don't remember *any* other narratives that contain a "computer" that becomes self-aware other than TMIAHM. Please do enlighten me.

    It's been a great many years since I read my way through most of Heinlein's works, but IIRC Gay Deceiver, the ship's computer in The Number of the Beast, might suit your request.

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 13 2019, @09:01PM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday February 13 2019, @09:01PM (#800730) Homepage Journal

    It's been a great many years since I read my way through most of Heinlein's works, but IIRC Gay Deceiver, the ship's computer in The Number of the Beast, might suit your request.

    Once again, IIRC Gay Deceiver as well as Minerva were *designed* and constructed as self-aware AIs.

    Mycroft Holmes on the other hand, was designed and constructed as a general purpose computer that gained enough complexity through upgrades and input stimuli to become self-aware.

    Those are completely different scenarios and, as such, aren't really comparable as plot/character devices.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:28AM

      by deimtee (3272) on Thursday February 14 2019, @05:28AM (#800893) Journal

      Dora might have been designed as a (deliberately childlike) AI, but Gay Deceiver was the computer in his flying car and basically came alive when they visited Frank Baum's Land of Oz. So in that case, yes magic.

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