Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics): 7
Mike Ashley
ISBN 10: 0712352422 ISBN 13: 9780712352420
Published by British Library Publishing, 2019
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'It's a hazardous experiment,' they all said, 'putting in new and untried machinery'
Caution, beware the menace of the machine: a man is murdered by an automaton built for playing chess; a computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings; an AI wreaks havoc on society after removing all censorship from an early form of the internet.
Assembled with pieces by Science Fiction giants such as Isaac Asimov and Brian W Aldiss as well as the less familiar but no less influential input of earlier science fiction pioneers, this new collection of classic tales contains telling lessons for humankind's gradual march towards life alongside the thinking machine.
About the Author: Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His British Library Science Fiction Classics anthologies include Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.
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Title: Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in ...
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good