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"CAPTAIN MARVEL" (2019) Review

"CAPTAIN MARVEL" (2019) Review For several years, many movie fans, critics and feminists have criticized Disney Studios and Marvel Films for failing to green light a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film that starred a person of color or simply a woman. And for years, producer Kevin Feige have assured these critics that the studio was planning such a film for the franchise. Ironically, it took the plans of a comic book film from another studio for Feige to fulfill his promise.

Sometime in 2014 or 2015, Warner Brothers Studios announced it plans for a solo film featuring one of D.C. Comics' more famous characters, Wonder Woman. The character had first appeared in the 2016 movie, "BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE" before moving on to a solo film. This decision by Warner Brothers and the success of the Wonder Woman film eventually led Feige to push forward his plans for a film about the Marvel Comics character, Black Panther aka King T'Challa of Wakanda. The character first appeared in the 2016 movie, "CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR", followed by a solo movie released in early 2018. Following the success of "BLACK PANTHER", Feige immediately set in motions for the MCU's first film with a female lead - "CAPTAIN MARVEL". The comic book origin of Captain Marvel is decidedly complex and a bit controversial. The first Captain Marvel was a Kree military officer named Mar-Vell, who becomes an ally of Earth. The second Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeau, an African-American police officer from New Orleans. She eventually became another costume heroine named Spectrum. Four more characters served the role as Captain Marvel - all of them aliens - before an Air Force officer named Carol Danvers became the sixth and most recent character to fill the role. Feige and Disney Studios had selected Danvers to be the first cinematic Captain Marvel. Directed and co-written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, "CAPTAIN MARVEL" begins in the Kree Empire's capital planet of Hala in 1995, where a member of the Empire's Starforce, Vers, suffer from amnesia and recurring nightmares involving an older woman. Both her mentor and commander, Yon-Rogg; and the empire's ruler, an artificial intelligence named Supreme Intelligence her mentor and commander, trains her to control her abilities while the Supreme Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that rules the Kree, urges her to keep her emotions in check. During a Starforce mission to rescue an undercover operative from the Skrulls, a shape-shifting race that are engaged in a war against the Kree, Vers is captured. The Skrulls' commander, Talos, probes Vers's memories and discover that the individual they are looking for might be on Earth. Vers escapes and crash-lands in Los Angeles, where she meets S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Nick Fury and Phil Coulson. Vers recovers a crystal containing her extracted memories, which leads her and Fury to an Air Force base. There, they learn that the mysterious woman that Vers had been dreaming of and for whom the Skrulls are searching is a Doctor Wendy Lawson, a woman who was working on a S.H.I.E.L.D. project known as Project Pegasus (one of the Infinity Stones - the Tesseract). They also discover that Vers is actually a Human Air Force officer named Carol Danvers, who was also working on Project Pegasus . . . and who was reported dead six years earlier in 1989. Vers (or Danvers) and Fury set out to keep the Space Stone out of the Skrulls' hands and to learn more about her past and how she had ended up with the Kree. Many critics and fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) were doubtful that "CAPTAIN MARVEL" would prove to be a hit. After all, the movie's lead was a woman and the actress portraying her, Brie Larson, had a reputation for left-wing politics. Nevertheless, these doubting Thomases were proven wrong. "CAPTAIN MARVEL" went on to earn over one billion dollars at the box office. Did the movie deserve this kind of success? Hmmm . . . that is a good question. "CAPTAIN MARVEL" did not strike me as one of the best MCU movies I have seen. I could say that it is your typical comic book hero origin story. Somewhat. "CAPTAIN MARVEL" had the unusual distinction of starting midway into Carol Danvers' tale. In fact, screenwriters, which include directors Anna Fleck and Ryan Fleck; along with "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" co-writer Nicole Perlman; made the unusual choice of wrapping Carol's past and the circumstances of her amnesia in a cloud of mystery. Movie audiences were first given the peep into Carol's past during Talos' probe of her memories. Between the Project Pegasus file and Carol's reunion with her former best friend, former Air Force pilot Maria Rambeau, the mystery was finally cleared. A part of me admired the screenwriters' attempt to utilize this different narrative device to convey Carol's past. At least four other MCU films have utilized the flashback device (limited or otherwise) for their narratives. But "CAPTAIN MARVEL" is the only MCU movie in which the protagonist's past is written as a mystery. Another twist that the screenwriters had revealed concerned the identities of the film's antagonists - the Skrulls and their leader Talos. All I can say is that their goal turned out to be something of a surprise. "CAPTAIN MARVEL" featured some well done action sequences. I thought Boden and Fleck provided solid direction for most of the film's action scenes. I enjoyed such scenes like the Starforce's rescue attempt of their spy from the Skrulls, Carol and Fury's escape from the Air Force base and the Skrulls, and the film's final action sequence involving Carol, Fury, Maria Rambeau, the Starforce team and the Skrulls. But if I had to choose my favorite action sequence, it would be the Los Angeles chase sequence in which Carol encounters Fury, Coulson and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, while chasing the Skrulls. My head tells me that I should be more impressed by the final action sequence. But I simply found myself more impressed by that chase sequence in the movie's first half. What can I say about the performances in the movie? They were pretty solid. I seem to use that word a lot in describing my feelings about "CAPTAIN MARVEL". Well . . . I thought Brie Larson's performance as Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel was more than solid. She seemed to take control of the character rather easily. And I thought she did a great job in combining certain aspects of Carol's personality - her ruthlessness, dry humor and flashes of insecurity. Although he had a brief appearance in the 2018 movie, "THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR", Samuel L. Jackson returned in full force as former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury for the first time in nearly four years. Only in this film, he is a mere agent. Jackson's performance in this film proved to be a lot more humorous than in his previous MCU appearances. I also noticed that he and Larson, who had first appeared together in the 2017 movie, "KONG: SKULL ISLAND", managed to create a very strong screen chemistry. Another memorable performance came from Ben Mendelsohn, who portrayed the Skulls' leader, Talos. Thanks to Mendelsohn's skillful performance, Talos proved to be one of the most subtle and manipulative antagonists in the MCU franchise. Other performances that caught my eye came from Lashana Lynch, who portrayed Carol's oldest friends and former Air Force pilot, Maria Rambeau. Does that name sound familiar? It should. In the movie, Maria is the mother of Monica Rambeau, the first woman Captain Marvel . . . at least in the comics. Lynch gave a subtle and skillful performance that portrayed Maria as a pragmatic and reserve woman with a dry sense of humor. Jude Law was convincingly intense as Carol's Starforce commander and mentor, Yon-Rogg, who was unfailingly devoted to the Kree Empire and who also happened to be searching for the missing Carol. "CAPTAIN MARVEL" also featured competent performances from the likes of Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, Gemma Chan as Starforce sniper Minn-Erva, Vik Sahay as Hero Torfan and Annette Bening, who portrayed Kree scientist Mar-Vell aka Dr. Wendy Lawson and provided the voice for the Kree Supreme Intelligence A.I. Akira and Azari Akbar portrayed the young and feisty Monica Rambeau at ages eleven and five respectively. Also, Djimon Hounsou and Lee Pace (both who had been in 2014's "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY") reprised their roles as Korath the Pursuer and Ronan the Accuser. Only in this film, Korath was a member of Starforce and Ronan had yet to become a homicidal political extremist. Do not get me wrong. I enjoyed "CAPTAIN MARVEL". And I do plan to purchase a DVD copy as soon as possible. But . . . it is not perfect. And it is not one of my favorite MCU films. One, I wish this movie had not been set in the past. I do not think that Andy Nicholson's production designs, along with Lauri Gaffin's set decorations and the art direction team had convincingly recaptured the late 1980s and the mid 1990s. Honestly, I have seen other movies and television shows that did a better job. I understand that Carol Danvers was an Air Force officer before she became Vers and later Captain Marvel. But I found the movie's pro-military atmosphere a bit jarring and uncomfortable. I do not understand why Disney Studios thought it was necessary to allow the U.S. Air Force to have so much influence on the film. I understand that the filmmakers had hired Kenneth Mitchell to portray Carol's father, Joseph Danvers. Why did they even bother? Mitchell was wasted in this film. He was for at least a second or two in a montage featuring Carol's memories. And he had one or two lines. What a waste of a good actor! And if I must be brutally honest, I found the movie's pacing rather uneven . . . especially in the firs thirty minutes and in the last half hour. And as much as I enjoyed some of the action sequences, my enjoyment was limited by the film's confusing editing, which has become typical of the MCU. Despite being a woman - and a progressive one at that - I found that entire moment with Captain Marvel kicking ass to the tune of Gwen Stefani's 1995 song, "Just a Girl" rather cringe worthy. The MCU has proven lately that when it comes to promoting feminine empowerment, the franchise can be rather shallow and subtle as a sledge hammer. My biggest problems with "CAPTAIN MARVEL" proved to be its inconsistent writing - a trait that has become a hallmark of the MCU in the past several years. On "AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D." Phil Coulson had informed his team that Nick Fury had recruited him into the agency, while he was in college. That should have occurred at least 10 years before this film's setting. Yet, Clark Gregg had portrayed Coulson as if the latter was a newbie agent. And to be brutally honest, Gregg's presence in the movie proved to be rather limited. Unfortunately. Speaking of S.H.I.E.L.D., why did Fury, Coulson and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents appear at that Radio Shack store after a security guard had reported her presence? Why? Before Fury's discovery of the Skrulls' presence, S.H.I.E.L.D. was more focused on unusual scientific projects. There is also the matter of the Tesseract aka the Space Stone. Apparently, the Infinity stone, which was discovered and lost by HYDRA leader Johann Schmidt in 1942 and 1945 respectively, was discovered by S.S.R. scientist and future S.H.I.E.L.D. founder Howard Stark in 1945. S.H.I.E.L.D. kept that stone for over 40 years until it became part of a joint S.H.I.E.L.D./Air Force operation in the late 1980s called Project Pegasus. Seriously? Why would such a secretive agency like S.H.I.E.L.D. even share knowledge of the Tesseract with the U.S. Air Force, let alone allow a non-S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist (Dr. Lawson) and two junior test pilots (Carol and Maria) be the main participants in this project? Movie audiences also discover how Nick Fury had lost his eye. I want to state how his eye was lost, but I am too disgusted to do so. Okay . . . Dr. Lawson aka Mar-Vell's space cat (or whatever the hell it is) named Goose had scratched out his left eye. That is correct. Fury's speech about trust issues in "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER" originated with a space cat that scratched out his eye, because he got too friendly with it. Jesus Christ! Talk about taking an important character moment for Fury in one film and transforming it into a joke in another, five years later. In doing so, both Boden and Fleck came dangerously close to neutering his character. They, along with Kevin Feige, actually managed to accomplish this with the Monica Rambeau character. They took Marvel Comics' first female Captain Marvel and transformed her into a child, who happened to be the daughter of Carol Danvers' best friend. I found this both frustrating and disturbing. Earlier, I had complained about the movie's 1989-1995 setting. I have a few questions in regard to portraying Captain Marvel's origin during this setting. If Captain Marvel had been around since 1995, why did Nick Fury wait so long to summon her? He did not summon her until the chaos surrounding Thanos' Snap in "THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR" began to manifest . . . twenty-three years later, as shown in one of the film's post-credit scenes. If Captain Marvel had been saving the universe during those past twenty-three years, where was she when Ronan the Accuser had threatened to destroy Xandar in "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY"? Where was she when Ego had threatened the universe in "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2"? Where was she when the Dark Elves had attacked both Asgard and Earth in order to get their hands on the Aether (or Reality Stone) in "THOR: THE DARK WORLD"? Where was she when Loki and the Chitauri attempted to invade Earth in "THE AVENGERS"? Where was she when Ultron threatened the Earth in "THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON"? Where was she during all of these major galactic crisis? The more I think about this, the more I realize that Carol's origin story should have been set after the recent MCU film, "THE AVENGERS: ENDGAME". Despite my complaints about "CAPTAIN MARVEL", I did enjoy it. The movie had enough virtues for me to do so, especially an entertaining adventure set in both outer space and on Earth. I also thought the screenwriters, which included directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck had created an engaging and interesting mystery that surrounded the protagonist's past and origin of her abilities."CAPTAIN MARVEL" also featured some impressive action sequences and first-rate performances from a cast led by Brie Larson. I do look forward to seeing this movie again.

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lindaliukas · 6 years

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Year in review 2017

Fourth year in review. This year I did more work with schools and was excited to see school districts start to embrace my work. Ran roughly 400 kilometres around the world and read 60 books. Flew over 120 flights and did over 60 talks. Published the third book in Ruby series.

2017 was a weird year. On the other hand I felt like I found professionally the guidelines I had been looking for: maximising freedom, maximising curiosity. Early on in the year I stumbled upon Robert Irwin who “decided to step in to his own curiosity” and knew I had found what I had been looking for. On the other hand I experienced first hand how easy it is to tip out of balance and ignore the things closest & dearest to you, resulting in a big mess.

Here are 2016, 2015 and 2014. And here is 2017:

January

Changed the year in Långvik with minimal hassle, maximum friends. Moved offices to Maria, again in snow & cold. Enjoyed the quiet days after Christmas and found kindred spirits. Met Andre Agassi at NBF (whose book I loved a few years back), but was most impressed with his charismatic manager who told me war stories about building schools.

Saw Arrival and Jackie. Loved this Tumblr story on Harry Potter and the CS classics list. Celebrated Nils' and Saku's birthdays. Ate more veggies and bought a Vitamix!

Went to Hawaii with Ville and enjoyed St. Regis & hiking. Kauai was green and lush and beautiful. Rode around the island to get one of my magic books of the year: Seeing is Forgetting (more on that later).

Washed my passport in the washing machine. It was a bad year for passports: I lost all together three.

Read:

The Girls.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. (Ended up studying a lot more physics this year than I originally anticipated!)

Juniper. From this Radiolab episode. If I were to start a tech company it would be in this space.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late.

Tale of Shikanako #1. I forgot to read the next parts, need to put it in my reading queue.

Whiplash.

Mothers.

The Gene.

February

Spent most of the month in US: New York, DC and Boston. Visited DC public schools, took mom to see Bowery Poetry Club in NY. Had really wonderful, snowy, concentrated days in Boston and got to hang out with Jie & rest of LLK team + dinners with friends.

Atlantic wrote about Ruby & the philosophy behind it!

Did my first STEM Institute with Roxanne and the CS4All team of New York Department of Education. Was exhausted, happy, loved the thorough feedback and can’t wait to run the course again.

Left my laptop in an Uber in Boston and ran around like crazy trying to get it to New York in time. Bought a new iPad and started experimenting with tools like Astropad, Apple Pencil and PS Sketch that would later in the year replace my old system of drawing.

Wined and dined with Henrietta in a very random evening.

Read:

Beloved. Loved this. More Toni Morrison for 2018.

Association of Small Bombs.

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of The Thing One Sees. On of the three most important books of the year. Oh Robert Irwin. His entire doctorate acceptance speech:"All I want say is that the wonder is still there." Walks away.

The End of Absence.

The Underground Railroad.

March

Went to Melbourne for a few days to speak at NGV Victoria (and Australian TV!). Started my David Hockney obsession that would last the entire year.

Settled into New York life and the TED residency. Started new routines with hip hop yoga! Did an Arduino workshop at School for Poetic Computation and enjoyed feeling like a beginner.

Worked a lot on the Internet book, reading a ton of the original research papers of WWW and Internet. Fell in love with Fermat’s library. Spent a lot of time thinking how to structure the book between software, hardware and culture of Internet.

Visited Switzerland shortly and was chosen as one of the 50 most inspiring women in tech in Europe.

Saw two plays: Tove Jansson in Helsinki with Jemina and an immersive piece Strangest in New York with Paul. Had a really fun, magic, sparkly afternoon with Hugo in Whitney Biennal.

Read

Small Pieces Loosely Joined.

The Vegetarian.

Homo Deus.

Commonwealth

April

Tried to balance living in two continents. Wrote a lot, but also saw a lot of friends. Went to see Puerto Rican / New York Poetry Slam with Roxanne and loved it. Brunched with Jason & Sara, went flywheeling with Zach, had dinner at Farhad’s insane apartment and cooked for Otto.

Saw Ghost in Shell and a live version of Israel Story (and got many ideas for my own performances). Backed Climate Change Coloring Book, which was one of my favorite Kickstarter projects of the year.

Turned 31 in New York. Got to go to Sesame Workshop!!

Got a new, beautiful goddaughter.

A quick trip to Barcelona to see Hola Ruby out in Spanish & Catalanian. Had a magical midnight dinner with a locals and visited one of the most eclectic schools. Continued working on Internet (and concept stage boardgame).

Tried to read David Foster Wallace, but gave up. This year maybe.. Still, always, Björk.

Read

The Handmaid's tale

A Tale of Love and Darkness. Enjoyed this one a lot.

In the Woods

May

The spring was starting to catch up and felt mostly jetlagged for the entire month. On the upside: lots of wonderful encounters with new and old friends. Saw Mikito for the first time in a long time and talked art & technology (TBC!!). Met Fawn! And Karen! Had breakfast with Yon & left with the biggest grin. Celebrated Eve’s engagement.

Celebrated Vappu in Central Park and had one of those funny, warm, random New York dinners where there just happens to be some of the most celebrated musicians, cooks & tech people of Nordics all under same roof.

Saw the Commes des Garcons show in Met and felt Rei Kawakubo’s personality. Saw Georgia O’Keeffe (+Marimekko, Finnish pride!) exhibition with Tiina (and later read this great article). Organised Computing & Stories summit in SFPC and felt the future of computing.

Did another PD on Internet with the NYC teachers (and tested ideas for the book, win-win!) and also in Sweden for Swedish teachers.

Fell in love with China. 你好 Ruby! Hello Ruby won the prestigious DIA Award by China Academy of Art out of 2700 applicants. My visit in Hangzhou was short, but can’t wait to go back and learn more about the country and it’s technology & education culture. Here are a few stories: 1, 2, 3

Read

Startup.

The Wangs vs. the World

See you in the cosmos.

Americanah. LOVED this.

June

Ended TED Residency with a talk. Really wish I would have prioritised the residency more, but luckily the community doesn’t come with an expiration date.

Took my parents to Japan and was really excited to show them all the experiences I loved. Visited Kyoto & Osaka for the first time.

Flew to Birmingham CAS conference. Miles and the UK computing organisations have inspired me a lot and I was glad to be able to give back. Loved being back in London for a few days and spending time in Kew Gardens with Minna and her family + seeing house of Minalima with Emma. Celebrated Tuula’s 60th.

Worked too much. Had a familiar midsummer stretch with Ruby 3. Me & mom going through proofs at 4 AM in the morning. Decided to move the next deadline to May to avoid the summer panic.

For most of the year my phone only had data service. Realised how much I hated being interrupted with calls. Ville had also sold his car, so we were for the first time in 5+ years a car free household. Felt like the future.

Read

On China.

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Finally finished. Best book I read all year.

American War.

July

Had my traditional summer vacation month and lived it vigourously by going to the dentist, eye doctor, doctor.. Oh well, ran and swam also and enjoyed the cold Nordic summer by biking in the soaking rain. Got Nintendo Switch and played hours and hours of Zelda.

Visited Berlin and danced my worries away with girlfriends. One of the most important weekends of the years with big consequences.

Celebrated the wedding of Pete & Liisa, met Juha 6/5, watered plants with little Isla, saw Valerian and had lunch with Miki with omnious predictions.

Did a biking trip to Kristo’s & Anna’s island with Ville and loved the archipelago and sense of summer childhoods. Visited the new Moominmuseum in Tampere and can warmly recommend it. Visited Meidän Festivaali, summer tradition.

Found A16Z AI Playbook and got inspired for the next book - it’s really amazing how much good educational material is out there. Some of my favorite newsletters on the topic for the entire year were: ImportAI, Exponential View and Creative.AI

Read

Artificial Intelligence: What everyone needs to know.

The Thirst. My summer tradition with the Nesbo’s..

In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia. Reggio was a lot on my mind through the year.

Sweetbitter

New York 2140

The Thing About Jellyfish.

August

Had a lot of family problems and overall a very sad month. But was also much more gentle towards myself and had a very strong idea of persisting. Stark contrast to the PR stuff happening around same time. Talked to everyone and everywhere. Cried a lot.

Third Ruby book came out in Finnish. The tetralogy is one step to being finished. I wanted to talk about the Internet, but everyone else still wants to talk about coding. Oh well. This was a nice, long talk about the book, although in Finnish.

Spent a lot of energy making home feel like home. Hosted dinners, spent a fun evening in Lonna, celebrated Flow weekend, had dinner in the Marimekko factory floor, went to the wedding of Johanna and Kalle.

Did two really important things for myself: started seeing a therapist and joined an all-girls running club. Monday evenings of track, hills and forests were the highlight of the week for the entire fall. Thanks Helsinki Core Trainers & Jarno. Went also orienteering for the first time in 20 years and found it very soothing.

Favorite things of the month: Melissa Kaseman’s art project, Preschool Pocket Treasures and Young Explorers.

Read

Rikinkeltainen taivas

The Idiot

The Sellout

Walkaway

September

Went to Copenhagen for Techfestival and enjoyed the small, weird, ambiguous, quality driven discussions. Felt fresh for a technology conference.

Worked on the English version of Internet book and started planning an illustration exhibition around Ruby with mom. Did some play testing at the English School.

Nelli had a masquerade party, dressed up as Alice in Wonderland and made a special dress! Celebrated Marjaana’s birthday in Lonna, ended up at an old friends apartment eating pizza at 7 AM.

Organised a surprise birthday party for my sister together with her friends and baby shower to my cousin’s wife. Hung out with goddaughter on a crips autumn day. Enjoyed doing small things for others.

Judged a hackathon at Marimekko and ended up doing my first machine learning project inspired by it! Found Liu Cixin’s books and mind exploded.

Went to Amsterdam and did a teacher workshop. Walked alone around a lot. Month ended up in better news.

Kept running. Kept reading this essay by Robert Macfarlane. Influenced my work a lot.

Read:

The Beautiful bureaucrat

The God of Small Things

When Marnie was there. Still haven't seen the movie!

Standard Deviation

Sophie's Choice

Sourdough. Loved this. Bought five immediately to giveaway.

Three Body problem. One of the other important books/series of the year.

A Mind at Play

River Town

October

Weird month. Mostly happy and relieved, but also way too much travel. I feel dizzy only reviewing what happened.. Was really happy to get a good review of the second Ruby book in US. The timelines of publishing really kill me.

Ran the Sipoonkorpi Trail and admired the baby kitten of a friend. Had a 15 year old intern who was bold enough to apply! Met with a lot of school people. Was back in Berlin for a few days, fell in love with my German publisher and their worldview.

Had pizza and watched Lady Gaga documentary with friends. Enjoyed this drawing from Aura.

Did an insane around the world few weeks: started with David’s birthday party in Copenhagen, followed by a very hungover flight to South Korea. Ran the best run of the year at Namsan Trail in Seoul, hung out with friends old and new. Saw Hillary Clinton live! Bucket list. Flew to Wisconsin and met with very cool librarians (and woke up to the news I had won an award on future of culture in Finland!). Spent a day in New York: saw friends, did a book event at my favourite bookstore, ran in Central Park.. and met my biggest kidlit idol, Oliver Jeffers, accidentally!

Visited four Finnish cities and three Swedish ones in a week. Did a project for Swedish teachers and tried reading Ruby aloud på svenska. Sounded like moomintrollet, but whatever. Flew to Japan.

Read:

Hold me tight.

Close to the Machine. This was like Patti Smith with computers.

Dark Forest.

Machine Learning: the new AI

Room of One's Own. Thousand times yes.

Little Fires Everywhere.

November

Went to Japan to accept the Rakuten Technology & Innovation award. Loved the other prize winners - among them an 80 year old app developer lady. Soaked for a rainy Sunday in onsen and visited the new Yayoi Kusama museum.

Went to Lapland with Ville. Enjoyed season's first skiing and started knitting again. Saw Tuntematon Sotilas movie. Dear friends got married and we got to be the witnesses. Met a new baby relative.

Very briefly visited Malmö and Oredev - wish I could have stayed longer. Flew to Miami and played Super Mario Odyssey almost entire flight. Got to visit an amazing school in Coconut Grove.

Finished Liu Cixin’s the Remembrance of Earth trilogy and a la Emily Dickinson: “I felt a cleaving in my mind / As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam, / But could not make them fit.”

Went to Greece and had the warmest & most enthusiastic crowd. Hope next year will bring more collaborations.

Thought a lot about this essay from Stephen Wolfram and this one from Cory Doctorow.

Read

Forest Dark.

Stoner. This was the suprirse Ferrante of the year: kept popping up everywhere..

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process. Loved this.

Death's End.

The Obelisk Gate.

The Fifth Season.

At the Existentialist Cafe. Took me almost a year to finish, but I can sense the reverberations..

December

I MET AL GORE. Everyone who knows me (or the 1.6 million people who watched the TED talk..) knows this was a huge deal, like a circle closing after 17 years. (The biggest daily of Finland also wrote a piece about the meeting on their economy pages. Teenage girls & their enthusiasm change the world <3). (Also, had lunch with Prince William, which on any other day would have been a huge deal, but all my excitement had already been used on Gore..). Slush was everything it promised: late from everything, random encounters, techno parties in the tunnels of Helsinki that went on until morning.

Went to Australia, spent half of the trip with a flu and lost my bank card, passport, and a few other gadgets. Decided it was time for a vacation. Loved seeing Australia beyond Melbourne and promised to come back for more than a few days..

Got a bit emotional about Finland turning 100 after being pretty nonchalant for the entire year.

Met with more childhood idols and got feedback on my projects. Met with a mentor and planned a trip to Dubai. Took a metro to Aalto University and heard about their AI research and quantum computing. Got really excited about visiting India. A teacher in NYC dressed up as Ruby for Computer Science week. Wrote about work and worked on writing.

Finished the Hockney book and was happy as a child with the Hockney-Falco-thesis. Perception (be it AI or art) seemed to be the theme of the year. Read Sherry Turkle's work and found direction(s).

Made gingerbread cookies with goddaughters family, took another goddaughter to movies to see Moomin. Celebrated Maija's doctoral dissertation (and surprise wedding!). Went to Christmas concert with Nelli & Juha, had many Christmas celebrations with friends. Saw Star Wars (if I had to choose, liked the new Blade Runner better) and Mozart's Magic Flute (loved the Komische Oper Berlin visuals). Watched the Crown.

Had girls over for wrath meaning and planning the new year. Spent Christmas together with Ville, just the two of us. Loved our tree, the new traditions and the quiet.

Read

Dinner at the Center of the Earth.

Manhattan Beach.

Minun Amerikkani. Felt this strongly.

True to Life: Twenty-Five years of Conversations with David Hockney. One of the big books of the year.

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit.

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thisismedrinkingtea · 7 years

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This file contains a list of novels and stories which contain one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters. Most of characters whose intelligence places a title on this list are effected or affected through the use of hardware, software or genetic alteration (rarely). Additions and corrections would be most appreciated as the list compiler <Garet Sheppard> has not read all of the works listed here - or even a significant portion, and will probably never have a chance to do so. My thanks to Dan Bloch and Robert Stanley for suggestions, ideasand editing.

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Date: 7 Apr 91 02:01:30 GMT

From: [email protected] (Garet Sheppard)

Subject: Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3 (1600 lines)

Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3

-Apr 6 1990-

The list uses the following AI definitions:

A androids - robots in human form

C computer systems - intelligent stationary computers or networks

H humans in computerized/program/digitized form

N non-mechanical, human created intelligences - usually biological

O other intelligences - intelligent tanks, books, planets, whatever

P programs - intelligent entities able to move between computer systems

R robots - mobile, usually mechanical AIs

S ships - intelligent; only mobile in the form of a (star)ship

Y cyborgs - born human, almost completely replaced by machine parts

* new/improved - information has changed since last edition

e evolved - any of the AI forms which evolved their intelligences

(expanded definitions are listed at the end of the list)

Author

AI type Title

Abe, Kobo

C Inter Ice Age 4 (or _Dai yon kampo-ki_)

Adams, Douglas Noel

* R Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [Monk of Belief]

R Life, the Universe and Everything

* R So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Marvin]

CRS The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

R The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adlard, Mark

C? Interface

C? Multiface

Alban, Antony

C Catharsis Central

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

R `All the World's Tears`

R? `Comic Inferno`

? `Full Sun`

? `Neanderthal Planet`

A `Pink Plastic Gods`

A `Super-Toys Last All Summer Long`

? `The Hunter at His Ease`

R `The New Father Christmas`

R `Who can Replace a Man?`

? Who can Replace a Man? (coll)

Alexander, Marc

R The Mist Lizard

Allen, J.

C? Data for Death

Amminnus, Marcellinus (pseud.)

C `The Thought Machine`

Anderson Poul

EO? `Epilogue` [mechanical life]

AC `Goat Song`

HY? `Kings Who Die`

R `Quixote and the Windmill`

S `Starfog`

R? `The Critique of Impure Reason`

? A Circle of Hells

? Brainwave

C? The Avatar

Anfilov, Gelb

? `Erem`

Anmark, Frank

A? `The Fasterfaster Affair`

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)

? OX

R Blue Adept

C Heaven Cent

CR Juxtaposition

C Man from Mundania

? Mute

? Omnivore

CR Orn

CR Out of Phase

CR Robot Adept

CR Split Infinity

C The Vale of the Vole

CR Unicorn Point

Anthony, Piers & Margroff, Robert & Offutt, Andrew J.

A `Mandroid`

Anvil, Christopher

? `The Hunch`

Appleton, Victor (pseud.)

? Terror on the Moons of Jupiter

Asimov, Isaac

C `All the Troubles in the World`

R `Catch that Rabbit`

? `Death Sentence`

R `Escape!` or `Paradoxical Escape`

A `Evidence`

R `Feminine Intuition`

R `First Law`

C `Franchise`

R `Galley Slave`

C `Jokester`

R? `Lenny`

R? `Let's Get Together`

R `Liar!`

R `Little Lost Robot`

? `Mirror Image`

C `Profession`

R `Reason`

R? `Risk`

R `Robbie` or `Strange Playfellow`

R `Robot AL-76 Goes Astray`

R `Runaround`

R? `Sally`

R `Satisfaction Guaranteed`

A `Segregationist`

C `Someday`

R `Stranger in Paradise`

A `That Thou Art Mindful of Him!`

A `The Bicentennial Man`

C `The Computer that Went on Strike`

R `The Evitable Conflict`

C `The Last Question`

C `The Life and Times of Multivac`

C `The Machine that Won the War`

R `The Tercentenary Incident`

R `Victory Unintentional`

AO Foundation's Edge [planet]

A Foundation and Earth

R I, Robot (coll)

* A Prelude to Foundation

CR Robot Dreams

A Robots and Empire

A Robots of Dawn

A The Caves of Steel

A The Naked Sun

R The Stars, Like Dust

R The Rest of the Robots (coll)

Asimov, Janet (Janet O. Jeppson)

R? Norby and the Lost Princess

R? Norby, the Mixed-up Robot

R? Norby's Other Secret

Balchin, Nigel

C `God and the Machine`

Ball, B.

R Night of the Robots

Bangs, John K.

R? The Worsted Man

Banks, Iain

A? Player of Games

? Consider Phlebas

Banks, Raymond E.

C `Walter Perkins is Here!`

Bannon, M.

R Wayward Robot

Barrington, J Bayley

R The Soul of the Robot

Barth, John

C Giles Goat-Boy (or _The Revised New Syllabus_)

Bass, T.J. (pseud)

O Ball [Cybers]

S Half Past Human

O The Class One [Cybers]

Y The Godwhale

O Toothpick [Cybers]

Bates, Harry

R `Farewell to the Master`

Baum, L. Frank

R? Glinda of Oz

R? Ozma of Oz

R Tik-Tok of Oz

R The Tin Woodman of Oz

Bayley, Barrington J.

R Soul of the Robot

Y? The Garments of Caean

? The Rod of Light

Bear, Greg

N Blood Music [nanobiorobots]

H Eon

H Eternity

Beaumont, Charles

R? `In His Image`

A? `Last Rites`

Bene't, Stephen Vincent

? `Nightmare Number Three`

Benford, Gregory

? `Doing Lennon`

O Across the Sea of Suns [Alien Machine Intelligence]

ACHR Great Sky River

* O In the Ocean of Night [Alien Machine Intelligence?]

* O Tides of Light

Berckman, Evelyn

? The Voice of the Air

Bester, Alfred

? `Adam and No Eve`

A `Fondly Fahrenheit`

O `Something Up There Likes Me` [satellite]

C Computer Connection (or _Extro_)

* Y? Golem^100

Bickham, Jack M.

C Ariel

Bierce, Ambrose

R? `Moxon's Master`

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

R `In His Own Image`

? `Spare the Rod`

Binder, Eando (E. and Otto Binder)

R `Adam Link Faces a Revolt`

R `Adam Link Fights a War`

R `Adam Link in the Past`

R `Adam Link in Business`

R `Adam Link Saves the World`

R `Adam Link's Revenge`

R `Adam Link's Vengeance`

R `Adam Link, Champion Athlete`

R `Adam Link, Robot Detective`

R `From the Beginning`

R `I, Robot`

R? `Iron Man`

R `The Robot Aliens`

R `The Trail of Adam Link`

R Adam Link: Robot (coll)

Y Enslaved Brains

Bischoff, David

C Wargames

Bixby, Jerome

R `Guardian`

Blade, Alexander (pseud.)

C The Brain

Blish, James Benjamin

A `I, Mudd`

R `Now the Man is Gone`

Y `Solar Plexus`

R? `The Apple`

? `The Box`

R `The Changeling`

C Cities in Flight

? Midsummer Century

Bloch, Alan

R `Men Are Different`

Bloch, Chayim

R? `The Golem`

Bloch, Robert

R `Almost Human`

R `Comfort Me, My Robot`

R `The Tin You Love to Touch`

Bone, J. F.

? `Triggerman`

Boucher, Anthony

R `The Quest for Saint Aquin`

Boulle, Pierre

C `The Man Who Hated Machines`

A `The Perfect Robot`

Bounds, Sydney J.

Y `No Greater Love`

R The Robot Brains

Bova, Benjamin William

? `The Perfect Warrior`

? `THX 1138`

S? `Stars Won't You Hide Me`

Bova, Ben & Ellison, Harlan

R `Brillo`

Boyce, Chris

H? Catchworld

Boyd, Felix (pseud)

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

Boyd, John

CR? The Last Starship from Earth

Bradbury, Ray

A `Changeling`

A `Downwind from Gettysburg`

R? `Dwellers in Silence`

R `I Sing the Body Electric`

R `Marionettes, Inc.`

R? `Punishment Without Crime`

A `The Long Years`

* O `There Will Come Soft Rains` [house]

R? `Usher II`

Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Henry

R `Pendulum`

Breuer, Miles J.

C? `Paradise and Iron`

Brin, David

R? `The Warm Space`

C Startide Rising

C The Postman

C The Uplift War

Brin, David & Benford, Gregory

H Heart of the Comet

Brink, Carol Ryrie

R `Andy Buckram's Tin Men`

Brown, Fredric

* O? `Etaoin Shrdlu` [printing press]

C `Answer`

Browning, John (Robert Moore Williams)

R `Burning Bright`

R `Robot's Return`

Bruckner, Karl

R The Hour of the Robots

Brunner, John Kilian Houston

R `Judas`

? `The Invisible Idiot`

? `Thou Good and Faithful`

? `You'll Take the High Road`

A? Slaves of Space (or _Into the Slave Nebula_)

C Stand on Zanzibar

Bryning, Frank R.

R `The Robot Computer`

Budrys, Algis (pseud.)

A `Dream of Victory`

R `First to Serve`

R? `In Human Hands`

R? Annsirs and the Iron Man

C Michaelmas

Y Who?

Bulmer, Kenneth

R `Never Trust a Robot`

Bunch, David R.

H? `Moderan`

R? `The Problem Was Lubrication`

Bunting, Eve

R The Robot People

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey

? `The 480`

? Fail-Safe

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

A? Synthetic Men of Mars

A? The Monster Men

Butler, Samuel

Ce Erewhon

Caidin, Martin

C The God Machine

Cameron, Lou

C Cybernia

Campbell, John Wood, Jr.

R `The Last Evolution`

R `The Last Revolution`

C? `The Metal Horde`

? `When the Atoms Failed`

? The Mightiest Machine

Capek, Karel

R R.U.R., A Fantastic Melodrama

Card, Orson Scott

* Ce Speaker for the Dead

Carr, Terry

? `City of Yesterday`

R `In His Image`

R `The Robots Are Here`

Carrigan, Richard and Nancy

? The Siren Stars

Carter, Angela

O The Informal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Carver, Jeffrey A.

Re From A Changeling Star [nanomachines]

P The Infinity Link

C The Rapture Effect

Chalker, Jack L.

CP Birth of Flux and Anchor

P Empire of Flux and Anchor

S Lords of the Middle Dark

CRS Masks of the Martyrs

RS Pirates of the Thunder

* CS Quest for the Well of Souls [planet]

* CS The Return of Nathan Brazil [planet]

* CS Twilight at the Well of Souls [planet]

RS Warriors of the Storm

Chandler, A. Bertram

? `The Left-Hand Way`

? `The Soul Machine`

Chapdelaine, Perry A.

? `We Fused One`

Cherryh, C. J. (pseud)

? Voyagers in Night

Clarke, Arthur C.

Y `A Meeting With Medusa`

? `Crusade`

Oe `Dial "F" for Frankenstein` [satellite relay]

R? `Expedition to Earth`

? `Superiority`

S 2001: A Space Odyssey

S 2010: odyssey two

? 2061: odyssey three

O The City and the Stars [city]

C The Foundations of Paradise

Clement, Hal (Harry Stubbs)

C? `Answer`

Clifton, Mark and Apostolidas, Alex

? `Crazy Joey`

? `Hide! Hide! Witch!`

Clifton, Mark and Riley, Frank

C They'd Rather Be Right (or _The Forever Machine_)

Clouston, Joseph Storer

R Button Brains

Coblenzt, Stanton A.

? `Lord of Tranerica`

Cole, Burt

C The Funco File

Collins, Graham P.

P Variations on a Theme

Compton, David Guy

? Synthajoy

C The Steel Crocodile (or _The Electric Crocodile_)

Y? The Unsleeping Eye (or _The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe_)

Coney, Michael G.

Y? `Troubleshooter`

? Freinds Come in Boxes

Conley, Rick

? `The War of the Words`

Cook, Glen

* S The Dragon Never Sleeps

Cook, Robin

? Brain

Cook, William Wallace

R A Flight Through Time or (_A Round Trip to the Year 2000_)

Cooper, Edmund

A `The Uncertain Midnight`

R The Overman Culture

Coppel, Alfred

R `For Humans Only`

R `The Hunters`

Correa, Hugo

R `Meccano`

Coupling, J. J.

RY? `Period Piece`

Cousey, James

A? `The Show Must Go On` or `So Lovely So Lost`

Cowper, R

? Clone

Crichton, Michael

CY? The Terminal Man

Crossen, Kendell Foster

? Year of Consent

Cumings, Ray

R `Almost Human`

Dahl, Roald

Y? `William and Mary`

Daley, Brian

PS Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Dann, Jack

Y? `I'm With You In Rockland`

Davidson, Avram

? `The Golem`

Davidson, Michael

H The Karma Machine

Davies, L. P.

R? The Artificial Man

Davis, Chan

A `Letter to Ellen`

de Camp, L. Sprague

R `Internal Combustion`

Deighton, Len

C The Billion Dollar Brain

Delaney, Joseph H. & Stiegler, Marc

Pe Valentina: Soul in Sapphire

Delany, Samuel R.

C City of a Thousand Suns (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

C Empire Star

C Out of the Dead City (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

* HO Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand [galactic database]

C The Einstein Intersection

C The Fall of the Towers

C The Towers of Toren (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

del Rey, Lester

R `A Code for Sam`

R `A Pound of Cure`

R `Helen O'Loy`

R `Instinct`

R `Into Thy Hands`

Y `Reincarnate`

R `Robots Should Be Seen`

R `The Master`

R `Though Dreamers Die`

R `To Avenge Man`

R `Vengeance is Mine`

R The Runaway Robot

Dick, Philip K.

Ce `Autofac`

? `If There Were No Benny Cemoli`

A `Impostor`

R? `Oh, to be a Blobel!`

? `Progeny`

ARe `Second Variety`

R `Service Call`

R `The Defenders`

AHR? `The Electric Ant`

C? `The Great C`

? `The Preserving Machine`

C? `The Variable Man`

? `War Veteran`

C A Maze of Death

A Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

? Dr. Bloodmoney

? Martian Time Slip

? Simulcra

R The Penultimate Truth

C Vulcan's Hammer

A We Can Build You

Dickson, Gordon Rupert

C `Computer's Don't Agrue`

R? `Steel Brother`

C `The Monkey Wrench`

? Necromancer

Dnieprov, Anatoly

O `Crabs Take Over the Island` [crabs]

? `Siema`

Dowling, Richard

R? The Fate of Luke Ormerod

Drake, David & Allen, Roger MacBride

O The War Machine [Artificial Inteligence Devices AIDs]

Duane, Diane

C? Spock's World

Dunsany, Lord Edward (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of

Dunsany)

? The Last Revolution

Durham, Jim

? `F.O.D.`

Durrell, Lawrence

C Tunc

CR Nunquam

Easton, Thomas

R? `Breakfast of Champions`

Edmondson, G. C.

? The Cunningham Equations

Eisenberg, Larry

* R `The Fastest Draw` [Robot Cowboy]

Eklund, Gordon

R `Second Creation`

R `The Shrine of Sebastian`

Elder, M.

? Paradise is Not Enough

Ellis, Edward S.

R? The Steam Man of the Praries

Ellison, Harlan

CY `Catman`

C `I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream`

Endore, Guy

Y? `Men of Iron`

Escarpit, Robert

C The Novel Computer

Etchison, Dennis

A? `The Fires of Night`

Ewers, Hans Heinz

A? `Alraune`

Fairman, Paul W.

R? `Robots Should Stick Together`

R The Forgetful Robot

H I, The Machine

Farmer, Philip Jose

* C The Gods of Riverworld

* C The Magic Labyrinth

* O -last book of world of tiers- [evil machines in bells]

Farrere, Claude

R? Useless Hands

Fine, Stephen

A? Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android

Firbank, Arthure Annesley Roland

R? The Artificial Princess

Fischer, Michael

R? `Misfit`

Flagg, Francis (pseud.)

R `The Mentanicals`

Forest, Jean-Claude

R Barbarella

Forward, Robert

S? The Flight of the Dragonfly

Foster, Alan Dean

* A Alien [Ash]

* A Aliens [Bishop]

CO Dark Star [intelligent bomb]

R The Black Hole

C The Tar-Aiym Krang

Foster, E. M.

C? `The Machine Stops`

Franke, Herbert

R `The Man Who Feared Robots`

Frayn, Michael

Y? The Tin Men

Friborg, Albert Compton

? `Careless Love`

Fritch, Charles E.

A? `Greever's Flight`

Fyfe, H. B.

R? `Let There Be Light`

R? `The Well-Oiled Machine`

Gallun, Raymond Z.

R `Derelict`

? `Mind Over Matter`

? `The Scarab`

Galouye, Daniel

C? `Counterfeit World`

R? `The Reign of the Telepuppets`

Garfarth, John

R? `Lack of Experience`

Garrett, Randall Z.

S `A Spaceship Named McGuire`

* O `The Hunting Lodge` [house-computer]

A Unwise Child

Gault, William Campbell

R? `Made to Measure`

R `Title Fight`

Gawron, J. M.

? Algorithm

Gelula, Abner J.

R `Automaton`

George, Peter

? Two Hours to Doom

Gerrold, David

C? `Oracle for a White Rabbit` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

C `The God Machine` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

? A Day for Damnation

? A Matter for Men

RS Space Skimmer

C When Harlie Was One & release 2.0

Gibson, William

CHP Count Zero

CHP Mona Lisa Overdrive

CHP Neuromancer

Gilliland, Alexis

P Corporate Saskesh (includes the following three novels)

P Long Shot for Rosinante

P The Pirates of Rosinante

P The Revolution From Rosinante

Glut, Donald F.

* R The Empire Strikes Back

Glynn, A. A.

? Plan for Conquest

Gold, H. L.

R? `Problem in Murder`

Goldin, Stephen

Ce `Sweet Dreams, Melissa`

Goldstone, Herbert

R `Virtuoso`

Goulart, Ron

A? `Badinage`

R `Calling Dr. Clockwork`

? `Cybernetic Tabernacle Job`

R? `Dingbat`

A? `Gigilo`

R? `Muscadine`

R? `Nobody Starves`

R `Regarding Patient 724`

R? `What's Become of Screwloose?`

R? Clockwork's Pirates

* R Into the Shop [ai car]

R Suicide, Inc.

CR? The Emperor of the Last Days

Goy, Philip (pseud.)

C Le Livre Machine

Grant, Charles

A The Shadow of Alpha

Gravel, Geary

C? The Alchemist

Green, Joseph

C? `Space to Move`

Grey, Charles (pseud.)

Y? Enterprise 2115

Groves, J. W.

R `Robots Don't Bleed`

Gunn, James E.

A? `Little Orphan Android`

? `The Message`

Hadley, Arthur

? The Joy Wagon

Haig, A.

? The Peruvian Printout

Haldeman Joe

* Y `More than the Sum of his Parts`

Hamilton, Edmond

A? `After a Judgement Day`

Y `The Comet Doom`

CR `The Metal Giants`

R Captain Future

Harness, Charles

H? The Ring of Ritornel

Harris, John Benyon (John Wyndham)

R `Sleepers of Mars`

R `Stowaway to Mars`

Harrison, Harry

R `Arm of the Law`

? `Homeworld`

R? `How the Old World Died`

R `I Always Do What Teddy Says`

R? `I Have My Vigil`

? `I See You`

? `Make Room, Make Room`

? `Survival Planet`

* R? `The Man from R.O.B.O.T.`

* Y `The Powers of Observation`

? `The Repairman`

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

P? `The Simulated Trainer`

R `The Velvet Glove`

R `War With the Robots`

R? The Stainless Steel Rat

Hartridge, Jon

C Binary Divine

Heinlein, Robert Anson

? `Revolt in 2100`

C `That Dinkum Thinkum`

R Friday

CS The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

* Ce The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

S The Number of the Beast

CS Time Enough for Love

S To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Herbert, Frank

CM Destination: Void

Herbert, Frank and Ransom, Bill

C Jesus Incident

C Lazarus Effect

* C? The Ascension Factor

Hickey, H. B. (Herb Livingston)

R `Full Circle`

R? `Hilda`

High, Philip E.

? `The Mad Metropolis`

Highstone, H. A.

? `Frankenstein to Unlimited`

Hjortsberg, William

Y? Gray Matters

Hoch, Edward

C? The Transvection Machine

Hodder-Wiliams, Christopher

? 98.4

C Fistful of Digits

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

R? `Automaton`

R `The Sandman`

Hogan, James P.

Re Code of the Life Maker

CS Giant's Star

C? The Genesis Machine

S The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

Ce The Two Faces of Tomorrow

CR Voyage from Yesteryear

Holis, H. H.

? `Cybernia`

Holly, J. Hunter

R `The Graduated Robot`

Holmes, H. H. (Anthony Boucher)

AR `Q.U.R.`

AR `Robinic`

Horton, Forest W., Jr.

A The Technocrats

Hoyle, Fred and Elliot, John

C A for Andromeda

C Andromeda Breakthrough

Hubbard, L. Ron

R? `Tough Old Man`

Hughes, Ted

R? The Iron Man

Jackson, A. A. & Waldrop, Howard

R? `Sun Up`

Jacob, Sylvia

R `Slave to Man`

Jameson, Malcolm

? `Pride`

Jenkins, Will F. (Murray Leinster)

C `A Logic Named Joe`

Jerome, Jerome K.

R `The Dancing Partner`

Jeter, K. W.

R Infernal Devices

Johannesson, Olof (pseud.)

C The Great Computer (or _The Tale of the Big Computer_)

Jones, D. F.

C Colossus and the Crab

C Colossus: The Forbin Project

C The Fall of Colossus

Jones, Neil Ronald

Y `The Jameson Satellite`

Y Doomsday on Ajiat

Y Planet of the Double Sun

Y Sunless World

Y The Sunless World

Y Twin Worlds

Jones, Raymond F.

? `Rat Race`

R? `The Gift of the Gods`

Y? The Cybernetic Brains

Kagan, Janet

C Hellspark

Kahn, James

* AR Return of the Jedi

Kapp, Colin

R? `Gottlos`

Karlins, Marvin

? The Last Man Is Out

Kelleam, Joseph E.

R `Rust`

Keller, David H.

CY? `The Cerebral Library`

Y? `The Eternal Professors`

R `The Psychophonic Nurse`

R `The Threat of the Robot`

Key, Alexander

R Bolts, a Robot Dog

R Rivets and Sprockets

R Sprockets, a Little Robot

Keyes, Daniel

R `Robot Unwanted`

Kilian, Crawford

P? Brother Jonathan

Kingsley, Charles

? The Heroes (anth)

Kippax, John (John Hynam)

R `Friday`

Kleier, Joe

Y? `The Head`

Knight, Damon

H `Masks`

C Stranger Station

? The Metal Smile

Knootz, Dean R.

CR Demon Seed

? Midnight

Kornbluth, C. M.

R? `The Education of Tigress McCardle`

Y `With These Hands`

Krahn, Fernando

R Robot-bot-bot

Kuttner, Henry

A? `Android` or `As Those Among Us`

R? `Happy Ending`

? `Jesting Pilot`

R? `Piggy Bank`

R? `The Ego Machine`

R Robots Have No Tails (as Lewis Padgett)

R The Proud Robot

Kuttner, Henry and Moore, C. L.

R? `Two Handed Engine`

Lack, G. L.

? `Rogue Leonardo`

Lafferty, R. A.

* H `Eurema's Dam`

* O? `Hog Belly Honey` [strange machine]

C Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Lamont, Duncan (pseud)

C `Production Job`

Laumer, Keith

? `Dinosaur Beach`

Y? A Plague of Demons

O Bolo [self aware tanks]

O Rogue Bolo [self aware tanks]

C The Great Time Machine Hoax

Lee, Tanith

* H? Drinking Sapphire Wine

R The Silver Metal Lover

Leherman, Herb

O `Revolt of the Potato Picker` [field machine]

Leiber, Fritz

R? `The 64-Square Madhouse`

R `A Bad Day for Sales`

? `Answering Service`

R `The Mechanical Bride`

RY? The Silver Eggheads

Leiber, Justin

P? Beyond Humanity

Leinster, Murray (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

R? `Exploration Team`

? `The Wabbler`

? The Lost Spaceship

Lem, Stanislaw

R `In Hot Pursuit of Happines`

C `The Computer That Fought a Dragon`

R `The Hunt`

R `The Mask`

R `The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius`

R `The Seventh Sally`

? Mortal Engines

R Return From the Stars

C The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (or _Cyberiada_)

Oe The Invincible (or _Niezwyciezony_) [machines]

Leman, Grahame

? `Conversational Mode`

Leroux, Gaston

R The Machine to Kill (or _La Machine a assassiner_)

Lesser, Milton

A `"A" As in Android`

Levin, Ira

R The Stepford Wives

C This Perfect Day

Lewis, C. S.

R That Hideous Strength

Liddel, C. H. (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

A `Android`

Long, Frank Belknap

R `The Robot Empire`

R It Was the Day of the Robot

Longyear, Barry B.

AR Naked Came the Robot

C Sea of Glass

Loomis, Noel

A `The State vs Susan Quod`

Lowenkopf, Shelly

A? `The Addict`

Lucas, George

R Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Lymington, J.

C? Year Dot

Mackin, Edward

? `The Key to Chaos`

? `The Trouble of H.A.R.R.I.`

Maine, Charles Eric (Pseud)

C B.E.A.S.T.

Malec, Alexander

? `10:01`

Malzberg, Barry N.

C? `The Union Forever`

Y? The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Manning, Laurence

C `Master of the Brain`

R `The Call of the Mechmen`

MacApp, C. C.

? Omha Abides

Markham, Russ

R `The Third Law`

Martin, George R. R.

A `Modular Man`

? `The Last Superbowl Game`

Mason, Douglas R.

C Matrix

Matheson, Richard

R `Brother to the Machine`

A `Steel`

R? `The Doll that Does Everything`

Maxwell, Ann

C Timeshadow Rider

McCaffrey, Anne

Y `The Ship Who Mourned (in _The Whip Who Sang_)

Y `The Ship Who Sang (in _The Ship Who Sang_)

Y The Ship Who Sang

McCarty, E. Clayton

R `Robot 678`

McCollum, Michael

S Life Probe

S Procyon's Promise

MacDonald, John D.

R `The Mechanical Answer`

Mead, Shepherd

? The Big Ball of Wax

Meade, Malcome (pseud?)

R `Call him Colossus`

Melville, Herman

R? `The Bell Tower`

Meredith, Richard C.

H? We All Died at Breakaway Station

Merliss, R. R.

R `The Stutterer`

Merritt, Abraham

R `Rhythm of the Spheres`

Oe? The Metal Monster [inorganic alien]

MacFarlane, Wallace

A `Dead End`

McGowan, Tom

R Sir MacHinery

Milan, Victor

P Cybernetic Samurai

P? Cybernetic Shogun

Miller, Walter Michael, Jr.

A? `Blood Bank`

Y? `Crucifixus Etiam`

R `I Made You`

R `The Darfsteller`

McIntosh, J. T. (James J. MacGregor)

A `Almost Human`

? `Machine Mode`

A `Made in USA`

C? `Spanner in the Works`

A `The Deciding Factor`

R `The Saw and the Carpenter`

Mitchell, Edward Page

Y? `The Ablest Man in the World`

R `The Tachypomp`

McKinney, Jack

CR The Sentinels - 2nd Robotech collection (coll)

McLoed, Shiela

R Xanthe and the Robots

McLoughlin, John

S Toolmaker Koan

Molly, J. Hunter

R? `The Graduated Robot`

Monteleone, Thomas F.

? `Chicago`

Moorcock, Michael

C The Final Programme

? `Sea Wolves`

Moore, Catherine Lucile

Y `No Woman Born`

Moore, Harris

CH Slater's Planet

Moran, Daniel Keys

C? Armageddon Blues

CY? Emerald Eyes

CPY? The Long Run

Morris, Janet

S Cruiser Dreams

S Dream Dancer

S Earth Dreams

Nesvadba, Joseph

? `The Einstein Brain`

Niven, Larry

H `A Teardrop Falls`

Y `Becalmed in Hell`

Y `The Coldest Place`

HS A World Out of Time

CH Integral Trees

C The Schumann Computer

CH The Smoke Ring

Nolan, William F.

R? `and Miles to Go Before I Sleep`

R? `The Beautiful Doll Caper`

A? `The Joy of Living`

R? Logan's Run

Norton, Andre

A Android at Arms

O'Brien, Fitz-James

R? `The Wondersmith`

O'Conner, William Douglas

R The Brazen Android

O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr.

H Mayflies

Oliver, Chad

R? `Didn't He Ramble`

A? `The Life Game`

Oliver, J. T.

R `Teacher's Pet`

Padgett, Lewis (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

Y `Camouflage`

R? `Deadlock`

? `Ex Machine`

R `Open Secret`

R? `The Twonky`

Paul, Barbara

C? `Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"`

Perkins, Lawrence

? `Delivered with Feeling`

Perry, Roland

C? Program for a Puppet

Phillips, Alexander M.

R? `Beast of the Island`

Phillips, Peter

R? `At No Extra Cost`

A `Lost Memory`

Phillips, Rog (pseud.)

? `The Cyberene`

Pierce, John R.

? `See No Evil`

Piper, H. Beam

C Junkyard Planet (or _The Cosmic Computer_)

Pohl, Frederik

? `Day Million`

R `The Midas Plague`

? `The Schematic Man`

R? `The Tunnel Under the World`

* CP Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

* CP Gateway

* HP Heechee Rendezvous

CY Man Plus

C Starchild

? The Age of the Pussyfoot

* HP The Annals of the Heechee

Pragnell, Festus

C? `The Machine-God Laughs`

Preselie, Robert

R `The Champ`

Pychon, Thomas

R Gravity's Rainbow

Quick, W. T.

P? Systems

H? Yesterday's Dawn

Rackham, John

A? `Goodbye Dr. Gabriel`

Rayer, Francis G.

C `Deus Ex Machina`

C `The Peacemaker`

C? `Tomorrow Sometimes Comes`

Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve

C Dome

Resnick, Mike

Y Santiago

Reynolds, Mack

C? `Criminal in Utopia`

C Computer War

C? Computer World

Richardson, R. S.

R? `Kid Anderson`

Richmond, Walt and Leigh

? `I, Bem`

Riley, Frank

? `The Cyber and Justice Holmes`

Roberts, Keith

A `Synth`

Robinson, Spider

* ? Mindkiller

* ? Time Pressure

Roger, Noe"lle (pseud.)

N The New Adam (or _Le Nouvel Adam_) [manmade organic life]

Rohrer, Robert

R `Iron`

Roshwald, Mardecai

? Level 7

Rostler, William

R `Ship Me Tomorrow`

Rothmand, Milton A.

? `Getting Together`

Rucker, Rudy

CR Software

CR Wetware

Russ, Joanna

? `Nor Custom Stale`

Russell, Bertrand

Ce? `Dr. Southport Vulpres' Nightmare`

Russell, Eric Frank

R `Boomerang` or `A Great Deal of Power`

A `Jay Score`

Re? `Mechanistra`

R `Men, Martians and Machines`

R `Relic`

R? `Symbiotica`

Ryan, Thomas J.

P The Adolescence of P-1

Saberhagen, Fred

O `Fortress Ship` [berserkers]

O `Goodlife` / \

O `In the Temple of Mars` |

O `Inhuman Error` |

O `Masque of the Red Shift` |

O `Mr. Jester` |

O `Patron of the Arts` |

O `Pressure` |

O `Smasher` |

O `Some Events at the Templat Radiant` |

O `Starsong` |

O `Stone Place` |

O `The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron` |

O `The Game` |

O `The Peacemaker` |

O `The Sign of the Wolf` |

O `The Smile` |

O `What T and I Did` |

O `Wings Out of Shadow` |

O Berserker (coll) |

O Berserker Man |

O Berserker's Planet (coll) \ /

O Brother Assassin (coll) [Berserkers]

C Changeling Earth

C Empire of the East

O The Ultimate Enemy (coll)

Sandberg, Richard T.

C? `The Perfect Crime`

Saxton, Josehpine

R `Gordon's Women`

Schachner, Nat.

? `Robot Technocrat`

Schlossel, J.

R `To the Moon By Proxy`

Scortia, Thomas Nicholas

Y? `Sea Change`

A? `The Icebox Blond`

Seabright, Idris (Margaret St Clair)

R `Short in the Chest`

Sellings, Arthur

A `Starting Course`

R `The Template Teleologist`

Senarens, Luis

R? `Frank Reade and His New Steam Man`

Shaara, Michael

R `Soldier Boy`

? `2066: Election Day`

Shaw, Bob

? `Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party`

Sheckley, Robert

R `A Ticket ot Tranai`

R? `Alone at Last`

? `Ask a Foolish Question`

R `Beside Still Waters`

R `Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?`

A `Compton Divided`

C? `Fool's Mate`

R? `Human Man's Burden`

R `The Battle`

R `The Cruel Equations`

R? `The Lifeboat Mutiny`

R? `The Minimum Man`

* R `The Robot who Looked Liked Me`

R `Watchbird`

C Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Sheffield, Charles

? Trader's World

Sherman, Robert

Ce `Problem for Emmy`

Sherred, T. L.

? `"E" for Effort`

Silverberg, Robert

R? `Company Store`

? `Getting Across`

C `Going Down Smooth`

CR `Good News from the Vatican`

R `Ozymandias`

S? `Ship-Sister, Star-Sister`

R `The Iron Chancellor`

R? `The Macauley Circuit`

R Across a Billion Years

H? Time Gate

H To Live Again

AR? Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford Donald

* R? `Aesop` (in City)

R? `All the Traps of Earth`

* R `City` (in City)

R `Earth for Inspiration`

* R `Epilog` (in City)

* R `Hobbies` (in City)

R `How-2`

* R `Huddling Place` (in City)

R `I Am Crying All Inside`

? `Limiting Factor`

? `Lulu`

R `Skirmish` or `Bathe Your Bearing in Blood`

C? `Univac: 2200`

R A Choice of Gods

* OR City (coll) [dogs]

R Cosmic Engineers

R? Destiny Doll

R Project Pope

S Shakespeare's Planet

R Special Deliverance

A? Time and Again (or _First He Died_)

Simmons, Dan

PR? Hyperion

? The Fall of Hyperion

Sky, Kathleen

A? `Birthright`

Sladek, John T.

Ce Mechasm (or _The Reproductive System_)

R Roderick

R Roderick at Random

R Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine

H The Mueller-Fokker Effect (or _The Muller Focker Effect_)

? Tik-Tok

Slesar, Harry

R `Brother Robot`

Slote, Alfred

A My Robot Buddy

* A C.O.L.A.R.

Smith, Cordwainer (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)

C `Alpha Ralpha Boulevard`

R `Mark Elf` or `Mark XI`

* Y? `Scanners Live in Vain`

* C `The Ballad of Lost C'Mell`

R `The Dead Lady of Clown Town`

Y `Three to a Given Star`

C Norstrilia (_The Planet Buyer_ & _The Underpeople_)

C The Planet Buyer

Smith, E. E. "Doc"

R `Robot Nemesis`

Smith, George H.

R? `Too Robot to Marry`

Smith, George O.

? `Counter Foil`

? The Brain Machine

Stableford, Brian Michael

? The Walking Shadow

Stapledon, William Olaf

Oe Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord [dogs]

Stasheff, Christopher

SR Escape Velocity

R King Kobold Revived

R The Warlock Enraged

R The Warlock Heretical

R The Warlock Insane

SR The Warlock in Spite of Himself

R The Warlock is Missing

R The Warlock Unlocked

R The Warlock Wandering

R The Warlock's Companion

Statton, Vargo (John Russel Fearn)

R Cataclysm

Stine, G. Harry

Y? Warbots: Operation High Dragon /5

Y? Warbots: The Lost Battalion /6

StJohn, Philip (Lester del Rey)

R `The Last True God`

Strike, Jeremy

C A Promising Planet

Stuart, Don A. (John W. Campbell, Jr.)

R `Night`

C `The Machine`

R `Twilight`

Sturgeon, Theodore

R? `Killdozer`

? `Agnes, Accent, and Access`

A `The Golden Egg`

* O More than Human [gestalt mind]

Swanwick, Michael

* P? Vacuum Flowers

Tall, Stephen

R? `This is My Country`

Temple, William

R? The Automated Goliath

Tenn, William (Philip Klass)

R? `Child's Play`

A? `Down Among the Dead Men`

? `The House Dutiful`

R `The Jester`

R? `Wednesday's Child`

Tevis, Walter

R Mockingbird

Thomas, Dan

C? The Seed

Todd, Larry

R `Flesh and the Iron`

Todd, Lawrence

R `The Warbots`

Townes, Robert Sherman

? `Problem for Emmy`

Tremaine, F. Orlin

R `True Confession`

Tubb, E. C.

A `A Captain's Dog`

R `Logic`

C `Moon Base`

Turner, George

Y Beloved Son

Vance, Gerald

? We, The Machine

Vance, Jack

Y? `I-C-a-BEM`

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

R `Automaton`

R `Final Command`

C? `Fulfillment`

A All the Loving Androids

CR Computerworld

? Mission to the Stars

C The Infinite Machine

C? The Players of Null A [cloning]

C The World of Null A [cloning]

Varley, John

* H? `Overdrawn at the Memory Bank`

* P `Press Enter`

C Millenium

Varshavsky, Ilya

R `Homonculus`

Vincent, Harl

R `Rex`

Vinge, Joan D.

H? `Fireship`

Vinge, Vernor

S? `Long Shot`

? `The Accomplice`

Pe `True Names`

P The Peace War

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

C `EPICAC`

Y? `Fortitude`

C Player Piano

R The Sirens of Titan

Wallace, F. L.

R `Seasoned Traveller`

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

S The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

S The Wizard and the War Machine

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

R? `The Ideal`

Wellen, Edward

A `Androids Don't Cry`

* C `Finger of Fate`

? `No Other Gods`

A `Voiceover`

Wells, H. G.

R? `When the Sleeper Wakes`

West, Wallace

A `Sculptors of Life`

White, E. B.

R? `The hour of Letdown`

White, James

R `Second Ending`

White, Ted

A Android Avenger & the Spawn of the Death Machine

Wilding, Eric (pseud)

Y `Deathwish`

Wilhelm, Kate

A `Andover and the Android`

Y `Windsong`

Willer, Jim

C Paramind

Williams, Robert Moore

R `Robot's Return`

R `The Metal Martyr`

Williams, Waltehr Jon

CH Hardwired

Williamson, Jack

R? `After Worlds End`

R `And Searching Mind`

R? `Guinevere for Everybody`

R `With Folded Hands`

Y? Lifeburst

R The Humanoid Touch

CR The Humanoids

Wodhams, Jack

? `Sprog`

Wolfe, Bernard

Y? `Self Portrait`

Y? Limbo

Wolfe, Gene

C? `Alien Stones`

* H? `The Fifth Head of Cerberus`

Woods, W. C.

C Killing Zone

Wright, S. Flower

R `Automata`

Wylde, Thomas

* ? Clypsis

H? Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway

Wyndham, John (John Lucas Benyon William Harris)

R `Compassion Circuit`

R? `The Lost Machine`

Young, Michael

? The Rise of Meritocracy

Young, Robert F.

R? `Emily and the Bands Sublime`

A? `Juke Doll` or `Doll Friend`

R `Robot Son`

R `September Had Thirty Days`

Zamiatin, Eugene

C? We

Zebrowski, George

SY? `Starcrossed`

Zelazny, Roger

O `Devil Car` [ai car]

R `For a Breath I Tarry`

R `Home Is the Hangman`

O `Itself Surprised` [Berserkers]

O `Last of the Wild Ones` [ai car]

C `Leaves of Grass`

C `Loki 7281`

C `My Lady of the Diodes`

H `Permafrost`

C Blood of Amber

Y Creatures of Light and Darkness

O Doorways in the Sand [ai recording unit, invades host's body]

OR Roadmarks [ai book]

C Sign of Chaos

C The Trumps of Doom

Zelazny, Roger & Saberhagen, Fred

CH Coils

Zebrowski, George

? `Starcrossed`

Zebrowski, George and Carrington, Grant

? `Fountain of Force`

I need more information about any of the above with a query mark under the AI type field, as well as about the following.

`The Floating World` in _Asimov's_

a series of stories about Willie Shorts

Connie Willis' _Fire Watch_ AI's

Doomstar by Perry and Reeves

Forbidden Planet; Robbie the Robot; author?

Holly in "Red Dwarf"

The (A) containing Callahan stories by Spider Robinson

The Purgatory Computer, Piers Anthony

* The rest of Stine's _Warbots_ series

Warren Norwood's Ship/computer book

removed from the list:

Anderson Poul - `Sam Hall`

Asimov, Isaac - `The Dead Past`

Bellamy, Edward - `Looking Backward`

Brunner, John - The Shockwave Rider

Caidin, Martin - Cyborg (or The Six Million Dollar Man)

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Children (Xenocide) as yet unpublished

Clarke, Arthur C. - `The Nine Billion Names of God`

Crichton, Michael - Sphere

Elliot, Bob et al. - `The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter`

Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber - The Lathe of Heaven

Lee, Tanith - The Eletric Forest

Miller, Walter M., Jr. - `Dumb Waiter`

McIntyre, Vonda N. - `The Genius Freaks`

Oliver, Chad - `Transformer`

Sturgeon, Theodore - `The Macrocosmic God`

Tiptree, James R. - `The Girl Who Was Plugged In`

Zelzany, Roger - My Name is Legion

Things not included:

Dr. Who stuff (K-9, Daliks, Cybermen)

ST:TNG stuff (Mr. Data)

expanded definitions:

All of the following should be able to pass the Turing test, and should be/have been (at the minimum in their original forms) products of human or alien intelligence. "Standard" definitions of intelligence apply.

androids (A) - robots in humanoid form, these can be mechanical and/or organic (_Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep_).

computer systems (C) - these range in size and type from a fair sized mini computer (_Ariel_) to an planetary

computer (_Colossus_) to a galactic network with one single mind (_Speaker for the Dead_).

humans in computerized/program/digitized form (H) - these tend to be copies of people which only exist in computerized form - such as the hacker in (_Neuromancer_) and folks of City Memory in (_Eon_).

non-mechanical, human created intelligences (N) - beings which have been (in most cases) genetically altered or are biological (_Blood Music_). NOT forced evolution

other intelligences (O) - beings which are difficult to categorize: anything Berserker, tanks, books, planets, planets (Asimov's Gaia), satellites, etc. Where (O) is used, the particular form has also been named when known.

programs (P) - able to move independently from one computer system to another, usually created by a program(mer) _The Adolescence or P1_).

robots (R) - constitute functional and specialized beings which are mobile and are not (S) or (P). Anything between vaguely humanoid (Dr. Who's Cybermen) and computers on wheels (R2D2) can be considered robots of the 'functional' robot class. 'Specialized' robots are those which are geared/optimized to performing one job - they can look like either androids (The Terminator) or functional robots (Val's from _Pirates of the Thunder_).

ships/computer systems (S) - essentially an (A) which is only mobile in the form of a (star) ship (_Pirates of the Thunder_). However, there are cases where the (S) is essentially a well programmed (R) which is only mobile as stated (_The Number of the Beast_).

cyborgs/mechanical humans (Y) - strictly speaking these are not AI. The definition here is that the (Y) is either (1) a human brain in control of a computer system/star ship (_The Ship Who Sang_) where at the very least the person's brain has been modified to contain computerized parts (_The Rapture Effect?_) (Did you ever wish that you could have a math co-processor?). (Y)'s are NOT (for the purpose of this list) organic beings whose natural body parts have beenreplaced by mechanical ones (ie. Luke Skywalker after his forearm was severed, or bionic people). unsure/no idea (?) - just what it says, so someone PLEASE read it and tell me what type is is and whether it belongs here.

evolved AI being (e) - usually begin as man-made devices hich then develop intelligence on their own (_Valentina_).

Clinton Edward-Garet (Jcen) Sheppard

Po Box 8266

Austin, Tx 78713-8266

panther@{ccwf,walt}.cc.utexas.edu

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