Difference between revisions of "The Adolescence of P-1"
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'''Ryan, Thomas. ''The Adolescence of P-1''.''' 1977. New York: Baen, 1985. Dist. Pocket Books. [[Category: Fiction]] | '''Ryan, Thomas. ''The Adolescence of P-1''.''' 1977. New York: Baen, 1985. Dist. Pocket Books. [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
− | The late adolescence, early adulthood, and death of Gregory Burgess, who creates and sees through adolescence and apparent death P-l, a computer program with the ability to learn and become an AI and then a person. Computer take-over motif where we sympathize with the computer program doing at least a partial take-over. Caution: the backcover blurb on the 1985 edn. is misleading. | + | The late adolescence, early adulthood, and death of Gregory Burgess, who creates and sees through adolescence and apparent death P-l, a computer program with the ability to learn and become an AI and then a person. Computer take-over motif where we sympathize with the computer program doing at least a partial take-over. Caution: the backcover blurb on the 1985 edn. is misleading. |
− | RDE, Title, 10Aug19 | + | From "Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy," an annotated reading list from the National Library of Canada: "In this carefully constructed story about artificial intelligence [AI], a hack job by a young man seeking money, high grades[,] and women takes an ominous turn when the hacker's computer program refuses to be shut down and begins to take over" (p. 21). |
+ | Caution: "Out of This World" incorrectly assigns the work to Phyllis Gotlieb. | ||
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+ | Novel discussed usefully in the Wikipedia entry, linked here.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1] | ||
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+ | RDE, Title, 10Aug19; augmented 5Jan22 | ||
+ | [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:21, 6 January 2022
Ryan, Thomas. The Adolescence of P-1. 1977. New York: Baen, 1985. Dist. Pocket Books.
The late adolescence, early adulthood, and death of Gregory Burgess, who creates and sees through adolescence and apparent death P-l, a computer program with the ability to learn and become an AI and then a person. Computer take-over motif where we sympathize with the computer program doing at least a partial take-over. Caution: the backcover blurb on the 1985 edn. is misleading.
From "Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy," an annotated reading list from the National Library of Canada: "In this carefully constructed story about artificial intelligence [AI], a hack job by a young man seeking money, high grades[,] and women takes an ominous turn when the hacker's computer program refuses to be shut down and begins to take over" (p. 21).
Caution: "Out of This World" incorrectly assigns the work to Phyllis Gotlieb.
Novel discussed usefully in the Wikipedia entry, linked here.[1]
RDE, Title, 10Aug19; augmented 5Jan22