The Cybernetic Samurai

'''Milan, Victor. The Cybernetic Samurai.''' New York: Arbor, 1985.

Post WWIII dystopia, plus AI story. "A Japanese firm . . . designs a sentient computer and names it 'Tokugawa' after the first Shogun . . . ." The Tokugawa AI is a good warrior and "also humane and honorable in human terms. At the end of the story the sentient Tokugawa, after it has successfully defended the factory-cum-office of its feudal lord from the attacks of rivals and rebels, is defeated by treachery and commits seppuku with a small nuclear device"—taking some baddies with "him" (Orth 7-8; see under Reference). Rev. Paul O. Williams, FR #82 (Aug. 1985): 24.

Sequel: The Cybernetic Shogun, q.v.

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