When HARLIE Was One

'''Gerrold, David (pseud. of Jerrold David Friedman). When HARLIE Was One''' (with "HARLIE" variously handled). New York: Ballantine, 1972. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, n.d. [S. F.] Book Club Edition.

HARLIE is a young, precocious, godlike computer who is very good at games. At the end of WHWO, HARLIE has taken over a major socioeconomic game and has "the capacity to take over all the rest of the games"—that is, human "civilization, culture, society." See copyright page of Doubleday edn. for other HARLIE stories.