Thinking Blind.
Maureen McHugh's short story "The Kingdom of the Blind," from her collection After the Apocalypse, is about the evolution of artificial intelligence. It tells the story of a woman working in an otherwise all-male information technology office, who, amidst the annoyances of everyday on-the-job sexism...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 25; no. 2/3; pp. 314 - 332 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2014
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