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The Turing Option
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Frank
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Sleepy Croyd
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“As far as I know, this novel is the only collaboration between Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky. And given the quality of the book, I find that truly sad. Harrison is, of course, one of the most prolific writers in the field of Science fiction and Minsky is a scientist with MIT, working in the area of A.I., who is probably more used to writing scientific articles than fiction. The two together bring a great story to life in an extremely believable way. For those of you that have already enjoyed the book, please check out Minsky's web page and read some of the http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/option.chapters.txt .
The "Turing Option" is set in the near future and concentrates on the experiences of a brilliant scientist who has just suffered major brain trauma. His own cybernetic researches help doctors to bring him back to life and allow him to pursue his murderers. This pursuit leads him back to his research into artificial intelligence which, it seems, was the motivation behind the first attack.
The plot and storytelling, while top-notch, are not what made this book stand out. No, it was the Machine-Intelligence that I became fascinated with. As far as I am concerned, the concept of a robotic entity has never been explored so well as in this novel. (Yes, I have read all of Asimov's robot stories). If you are at all interested in this area of science, then this book must be read.”
Loring Holden
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“Robert A. Heinlein wrote many great science fiction stories that are still enjoyable now, decades after they were written and in some cases, decades after the stories take place. In some cases, the technology in these stories is quite dated, but the stories are still interesting despite that because of their plot, characters, and ideas.
On the other hand, the technology in this book is very dated, but the plot, characters, ideas, and writing don't make up for it. It doesn't help that the story describes the technology in great detail and the artificial intelligence (AI) research in so much detail that it probably is only compelling for AI experts. This is probably because one of the authors of this book is Marvin Minsky, a co-founder of the MIT AI lab.”
Michelle M
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Michael Smith
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About Harry Harrison
HARRY HARRISON (1925-2012) was the Hugo Award-nominated, Nebula Award-winning and
bestselling author of the
,
and
series, as well as
which was turned into the cult classic movie,
starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. In 2009 Harrison was awarded the Damon Knight SF Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Other books by Harry Harrison
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