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- From: vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin)
- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 08:34:42 GMT
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- In <1992Nov14.200401.24530@ariel.ec.usf.edu> mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
- >Most communicative computer books are really part of the
- >old GOLEM genre (a Medieval Jewish tale of an alchemist
- >who created an artificial man who ran amok). Some golems
- >are good (eg, Rink-a-tink of Oz, Isaac Asimov's Robot series),
- >but most are Frankenstein types.
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- An interesting book that combines both the original golem idea and
- that of a human computer is Marge Piercy's Body of Glass (1991 or
- 1992). It also deals with virtual reality and has good characterisation.
- I don't have the full details, but I can email them.
-
- (BTW, is this really the right group for this discussion?)
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