Lingo

'''Menick, Jim. Lingo.''' New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991.

Computer program becomes an AI, moving into a computer coming-of-age story, moving into a computer take-over story; significant for recognizing that user-friendly little computers are now being networked into large, threatening systems. Cf. and contrast A. C. Clarke's "Dial F . . . ," D. Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One, T. Ryan's The Adolescence of P-1—all cited in this Category. Rev. Richard D. Erlich, SFRA Review #199 (July/August 1992): 62.