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Suspect (The Risk, 1960)
"I'll be quite frank with you, Minister. Although I know nothing about politics, I've never felt that because I happened to be born in this country, it was the only country that mattered. I've tried to give it a fair return for what it has given me, and after that my loyalty is to the world. When you tell me it'd be treason to publish my work because some lunatic might use it to kill Englishmen, and I know that that stuff properly developed could save half a million lives outside this country, then I say it'd be treason to those half million if I don't."
#suspect#the risk#british cinema#1960#thriller film#john boulting#roy boulting#nigel balchin#tony britton#virginia maskell#ian bannen#peter cushing#thorley walters#raymond huntley#donald pleasence#kenneth griffith#spike milligan#robert bruce#anthony booth#basil dignam#sam kydd#geoffrey bayldon#cheap and cheerful cold war thriller apparently shot in 17 days; it does occasionally show. questions about duty and right and ethics and#scientific discovery are all very interesting but rather hand waved over at times in a clumsy and none too delicate way#far more interesting (or better dealt with shall we say) is the melodramatic love triangle between scientists Maskell and Britton and Ian#Bannen's double amputee Korean war veteran. Bannen is incredible in an incendiary role‚ helmed much better and with more nuance and more#depth than might have been expected for a 1960 quota quickie. he's pitiable and sad but never because of his disability; rather it's the#mental scars‚ that have wrapped him in double thinking and mistrust‚ and which lead him to coercion and calculated cruelty‚ which makes him#a tragic figure. much less successful is the comic business going on here. Thorley Walters' eccentric security man is a little over done#and rather obvious but looks positively oscar worthy next to a deeply misjudged comic relief part for Spike Milligan of all people
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Lean's white contrasts with Michael Powell's colour by Pyrotechnicolor. Powell has been dismissed as a 'mere' technician, but if so, he's an eccentric one, in the sense of that proverbially English phenomenon, an eccentric Colonel. When stiff upper lip Colonels retire from matter-of-fact activities like strategy and gunnery, they notoriously embrace soft-centred systems of mystical belief. Similarly, where Powell the brilliant technician leaves off, there appears a man with a disciplined foible for romantic mysticisms of every kind: for militarism (his Prussian officers and his Queen's Guards), for the English countryside (A Canterbury Tale), for the fate-time warp (A Matter of Life and Death), for sex-maniacs (Peeping Tom), for a sex-maddened nun on Himalayan peaks (Black Narcissus), for the wild Celtic fringe (The Edge of the World, I Know Where I'm Going!, Gone to Earth), for the spiritual hothouse of opera-ballet (The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann). He opens up the romantic veins of his sober subjects: even The Small Black Room, most of which is the best filmization of Nigel Balchin, blossoms into expressionist D.T.s with David Farrar vainly striving to scramble up the sheer smooth sides of a gigantic Scotch-bottle.
Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England
#raymond durgnat#a mirror for england: british movies from austerity to affluence#michael powell#david lean#nigel balchin
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I noticed…
The note from Maggie is from the record shop. It’s called ‘The Small Back Room’ which I thought at first was a nod to how it started off in a corner of Aziraphale’s shop but then…
This film of 1949.
“Based on the acclaimed novel by Nigel Balchin, The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar), who, while struggling with a complex relationship with secretary girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Byron), is hired by the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon. Deftly mixing suspense and romance, The Small Back Room is an atmospheric, post–World War II gem.”
Interesting…
#good omens#goodomens2#ineffable husbands#aziraphale x crowley#ineffable partners#ineffable wives#aziraphale and crowley#good omens 3#ineffable lovers#ineffable spouses#neil gaiman#the small back room
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Blu-ray review: “Barabbas” (1961)
“Barabbas” (1961)
Biblical Drama
Running Time: 137 minutes
Written by: Nigel Balchin, Diego Fabbri, Christopher Fry and Salvatore Quasimodo based on Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Featuring: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman and Jack Palance
Pontius Pilate: “It seemed to me at the time,…
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#Anthony Quinn#Arthur Kennedy#Barabbas#Barabbas blu-ray#Barabbas blu-ray review#blu-ray#blu-ray review#bluray review#bluray reviews#Ernest Borgnine#Harry Andrews#Jack Palance#Katy Jurado#Richard Fleischer#Silvana Mangano
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The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1949).
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Nigel Balchin
"This was the way the world ended. Not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but with a sort of creeping paralysis of indifference."
The Small Back Room
Darkness Falls from the Air
A Way Through the Wood
Mine Own Executioner
In the Absence of Mrs. Petersen
The Fall of the Sparrow
A Sort of Traitors
Last Recollections of My Uncle Charles
#Nigel Balchin#The Small Back Room#Darkness Falls from the Air#Mine Own Executioner#The Fall of the Sparrow#A Way Through the Wood#In the Absence of Mrs. Petersen#A Sort of Traitors#Last Recollections of My Uncle Charles#Author#Authors#Literature#Books#Read#Quotation
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circle of deception (uk, lee 60)
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The novelist, Nigel Balchin, was once invited to address a conference on “incentives” in industry. He remarked that “Industrial psychologists must stop messing about with tricky and ingenious bonus schemes and find out why a man, after a hard day’s work, went home and enjoyed digging in his garden.”
But don’t we already know why? He enjoys going home and digging in his garden because there he is free from foremen, managers and bosses. He is free from the monotony and slavery of doing the same thing day in day out, and is in control of the whole job from start to finish. He is free to decide for himself how and when to set about it. He is responsible to himself and not to somebody else. He is working because he wants to and not because he has to. He is doing his own thing. He is his own man.
The desire to “be your own boss” is very common indeed. Think of all the people whose secret dream or cherished ambition is to run a small-holding or a little shop or to set up in trade on their own account, even though it may mean working night and day with little prospect of solvency. Few of them are such optimists as to think they will make a fortune that way. What they want above all is the sense of independence and of controlling their own destinies.
The fact that in the twentieth century the production and distribution of goods and services is far too complicated to be run by millions of one-man businesses doesn’t lessen this urge for self-determination, and the politicians, managers and giant international corporations know it. This is why they present every kind of scheme for “workers’ participation,” “joint management,” “profit sharing,” “industrial co-partnership,” everything in fact from suggestion boxes to works councils, to give the worker the feeling that he is more than a cog in the industrial machine while making sure that effective control of industry is kept out of the hands of the man on the factory floor.
They are in fact like the rich man in Tolstoy’s fable – they will do anything for the worker except get off his back.
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Industry is not dominated by technical expertise, but by the sales manager, the accountant and the financial tycoon who never made anything in their lives except money.For a lucky few work is enjoyable for its own sake, but the proportion of such people in the total working population grows smaller as work becomes either more mechanised or more fragmented Automation, which was expected to reduce the sheer drudgery of manual labour and the sheer mental drudgery of clerical work, is feared because in practice it simply reduces the number of income gaining opportunities. It is a saving of labour, not by the worker, but by the owners or controllers of capital. The lucky few are destined for the jobs which are either created by or are unaffected by automation. The unlucky majority, condemned from childhood to the dreary jobs, find them either diminished or extinguished by the “rationalisation” of work.
Can we imagine that in a situation where the control of an industry, a factory, any kind of workplace, was in the hands of the people who work there, they would just carry on production, distribution and bottle-washing in the ways we are familiar with today? Even within capitalist society (though not within the “public sector” which belongs to “the people”) some employers find that what they call job enlargement or job enrichment, the replacement of conveyor belt tasks by complete assembly jobs, or deliberate rotation from job to job in the production process, can increase production simply by reducing boredom. When everyone in an industry has a voice in it, would they stop at this point?In his brilliant essay Work and Surplus, Keith Paton imagines what would happen in a car factory taken over permanently by its workers. “After the carnival of revolution come the appeals to return to work” but “to get into the habit of responding to orders or exhortations to raise the GNP would be to sell the pass straight away. On the other hand production must eventually be got going on some basis or other. What basis? Return to what sort of work?”
So instead of restarting the assembly track (if the young workers haven’t already smashed it) they spend two months discussing the point of their work, and how to rearrange it. Private cars ? Why do people always want to go somewhere else? Is it because where they are is so intolerable? And what part did the automobile play in making the need to escape? What about day to day convenience? Is being stuck in a traffic jam convenient? What about the cost to the country? Bugger the “cost to the country”, that’s just the same crap as the national interest. Have you seen the faces of old people as they try to cross a busy main road? What about the inconvenience to pedestrians? What’s the reason for buying a car? Is it just wanting to HAVE it? Do we think the value of a car rubs off on us ? But that’s the wrong way round. Does having a car really save time ? What’s the average hours worked in manufacturing industry Let’s look it up in the library: 45-7 hours work a week. What’s the amount of the family’s spending money in a week that goes on cars? 10 3 per cent of all family income. Which means more like 20 per cent if you’ve got a car because half of us don’t have one. What’s 25 per cent of 45 hours ? Christ, 9 hours ! That’s a hell of a long time spent “saving time”! There must be a better way of getting from A to B. By bus? OK, let’s make buses. But what about the pollution and that? What about those electric cars they showed on the telly once? Etc., etc.
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Tribute by St Austell brewery paired with a late Nigel Balchin, In the Absence of Mrs Peterson.
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1970 A Way Through The Wood by Nigel Balchin published by Collins - [ ] #antiquarian #illustration_daily #bookshelf #antiquarianbookshop #americanantiquarian #illustration #illustrations #booksbooksbooks #childrenseemagic #childrensbooks #books #illustrationart #illustrationartists #bookshelves #childrensbook #childrensfashion #bookstore #childrens #antiquarianbook #books📚 #illustrationartist #antiquarianbooks #bookstagram #nigelbalchin https://www.instagram.com/p/B6k1d4Fp5NC/?igshid=1j4sr8boqg9y7
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One's principal criticism's of Terence Young's Dr. No are to the effect that it is too decorous, too prosaic and too unconvincing. Fleming's novels deliciously mish-mash touches of Balchin-type versimilitude with a streamlined, air-conditioned Gothic grotesque. And it's a pity that the latter has scared the producers off. Thus Honey (Ursula Andress), Bond's ironically scientific Girl Friday, a knife-girt Venus rising from the sea, lacks the smashed nose so lovingly detailed in the novel, or even some cosmetic equivalent thereof. If the movie Bond carries a lighter-calibre revolver than he should, it is not because he loves Thy Servant A Gun as a schoolboy loves his pie, but because he is a kindly soul who would rather run an unnecessary risk than unnecessarily kill.
Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England
#raymond durgnat#a mirror for england: british movies from austerity to affluence#james bond#ian fleming#dr. no#terence young#nigel balchin
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For just $3.99 Fame is the Spur Released on September 23, 1947: A young, brash liberal politician from the poor streets of Manchester becomes a Member of Parliament and changes his thoughts on the right way to legislate as he grows older. Directed by: Roy Boulting Written by: Howard Spring with screenplay by Nigel Balchin The Actors: Michael Redgrave Hamer Radshaw, Rosamund John Ann Radshaw, Bernard Miles Tom Hannaway, Carla Lehmann Lady Lettice Lastwithiel, Hugh Burden Arnold Ryerson, Marjorie Fielding Aunt Lizzie, Seymour Hicks Old Buck, Tony Wager Hamer Radshaw as a boy, Brian Weske Arnold Ryerson as a boy, Gerald Fox Tom Hannaway as a boy, Jean Shepeard Mrs. Radshaw, Guy Verney grandpa, Percy Walsh Suddaby, David Tomlinson Lord Liskeard, Charles Wood Dai, Milton Rosmer Magistrate Clark, Wylie Watson Pendleton, Radshaw's gentleman's gentleman, Ronald Adam Radshaw's doctor, Honor Blackman Emma, Clifford Buckton gamekeeper, Campbell Cotts meeting chairman, Maurice Denham second prison doctor, Kenneth Griffith wartime miners' representative, Roddy Hughes wartime miners' spokesman, Vi Kaley old woman in election crowd, Laurence Kitchin Radshaw's secretary, Philip Ray doctor, Gerald Sim reporter, Harry Terry man in election crowd, Iris Vandeleur woman who opens the front door, H. Victor Weske wartime miners' representative, Ben Williams reporter Runtime: 1h 56m *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact us as it is unusual for any item to take this long to be delivered. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies withs rules on compilatio...
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Mine Own Executioner (1947) from director Anthony Kimmins and based on the excellent novel by Nigel Balchin is a dark British noir tale which explores the burgeoning and controversial use of psychotherapy in post WWII Britain. Dedicated psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) divides his time between middle-aged wealthy women who bore him to tears, and poor patients who attend free sessions at the Norris Pile clinic--an impoverished charitable institution
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Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick, 1952).
#alexander mackendrick#mandy (1952)#mandy#crash of silence#crash of silence (1952)#phyllis calvert#jack hawkins#douglas slocombe#seth holt#jim morahan#anthony mendleson#hilda lewis#nigel balchin#jack whittingham
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While the art direction of this movie is stunning as is the cinematography (shout out Leon Shamroy) it’s, evidently, tone deaf and racist in its inaccurate historical depiction.
Although, I would be remiss if I didn’t shout out Elizabeth Taylor (and her agents) for negotiating an unprecedented contract for a woman of that time ($1million, later $7million) for this film. Even though it would have been far more radical and significant to cast a POC as the actor for Cleopatra, I applaud LT for being a true boss bitch. She also returned to filming after an emergency tracheotomy...
I took a slight joy in learning about the harrowing tale of the very cursed production:
(from wikipedia)
“The eventual production costs of Cleopatra almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Originally budgeted at $2 million,[6] the film ended up costing $31 million, making it the most expensive film ever made at the time.[3] This was partly because the film's elaborate, complicated sets, costumes and props had to be constructed twice, first during an abandoned shoot in London and once more when the production relocated to Rome.
Having proved a hit in 1917 for silent-screen legend Theda Bara, and enjoying an equally successful box-office run in 1934 starring Claudette Colbert, 20th Century Fox executives hired veteran Hollywood producer Walter Wanger to shepherd another remake of Cleopatra into production. Though the studio originally sought a relatively cheap production of $2 million, Wanger envisioned a much more opulent epic. After he was able to negotiate a higher budget of $7 million, screenwriter Nigel Balchin was hired to pen the script. Dale Wasserman would later rewrite Balchin's material, though neither of them ended up receiving screen credit. Filming began in London in 1960 under Rouben Mamoulian. Mankiewicz was brought into the production after Mamoulian's departure. Leon Shamroy replaced Jack Hildyard as cinematographer. Mankiewicz inherited a film which was already $5 million over budget and had no usable footage to show for it. This was in part because the actors originally chosen to play Julius Caesar (Peter Finch) and Mark Antony (Stephen Boyd) left owing to other commitments. Mankiewicz was later fired during the editing phase, only to be rehired when no one else could piece the film together (since Mankiewicz was hired so late in the production, he was rewriting the screenplay during principal photography; there was never a finished shooting script as such).
Elizabeth Taylor was awarded a record-setting contract of $1 million. This amount eventually swelled to $7 million because of the delays of the production (equivalent to $55,000,000 in 2016).[7] Taylor became very ill during the early filming and was rushed to hospital, where a tracheotomy had to be performed to save her life. The resulting scar can be seen in some shots. All of this resulted in the film being shut down. The production was moved to Rome after six months as the English weather proved detrimental to her recovery, as well as being responsible for the constant deterioration of the costly sets and exotic plants required for the production. (The English sets were used for the British comedy Carry On Cleo.) During filming, Taylor met Richard Burton and the two began an adulterous affair, which made headlines worldwide since both were married to others. Moral outrage over the scandal brought bad publicity to an already troubled production.
The cut of the film which Mankiewicz screened for the studio was six hours long. This was cut to four hours for its initial premiere, but the studio demanded (over the objections of Mankiewicz) that the film be cut once more, this time to just barely over three hours to allow theaters to increase the number of showings per day. As a result, certain details are left out of the film, such as Rufio's death and the recurring theme of Cleopatra's interaction with the gods of Egypt.[8] Mankiewicz unsuccessfully attempted to convince the studio to split the film in two in order to preserve the original cut. These were to be released separately as Caesar and Cleopatra followed by Antony and Cleopatra. The studio wanted to capitalize on the publicity of the intense press coverage the Taylor-Burton romance was generating, and felt that pushing Antony and Cleopatra to a later release date was too risky. The film has been released to home video formats in its 248-minute premiere version, and efforts are under way to locate the missing footage (some of which has been recovered).”
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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_).
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