False Gods and Libertarians: Artificial Intelligence and Community in Ahmad 'Abd al-Saläm al-Baqqäli's The Blue Flood and Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
This paper examines Moroccan author Baqqali's novel al-Tufan a!-'Az.raq [The Blue Flood, 1976] from the perspective of its use of an artificial intelligence (AI) as a guiding force in a sequestered community. In the novel, the desert refuge for scientists is controlled by a massive computer. The pro...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 43 - 65 |
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University of California Press
Mar2017
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