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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
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Subject: Re: Canonical list of sentient computer novels
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Date: Sun, 16-Nov-86 03:46:21 EST
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In article <1073@rti-sel.UUCP>, rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) writes:
> Really people!!!!! How about an early novel about intelligent computers
> 
> 	Colossus (spelling uncertain)
> 	(I can't remember the second book but it had Colossus in title)
> 	Colossus and the Crab

It's "The Fall of Colossus"

> The story starts with a computer controlling the US defence network that
> becomes intelligent, joins up with it's Russian counterpart and decides
> that it should run the world.
> -- 
> 					Random (Randy Buckland)
> 					Research Triangle Institute
> 					...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb

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