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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Canonical list of sentient computer novels
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Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 14:02:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 14:02:08 1986
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Summary: 2001?


	Either I'm about to make a fool of myself, or we've got a real case
of The Emperor's New Clothes going on here.  I'm amazed that nobody has
mentioned "2001".  Doesn't HAL count as a sentient computer?  If you really
wanted to be weird, doesn't the black monolith count as one too?

	Somebody already mentioned it, but my favorite is "The Adolescence
of P1".  Good story, well written, nice touch of "weirdo hacker vs. the
military-industrial complex".
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"