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Computers can play chess as well as any grandmaster. They
can diagnose cancer as well as any oncologist, find oil
as well as any seismologist. But can they do that most human
of all activities: can they tell a story? Read Cheap Complex
Devices and find out. This volume, edited by John Compton
Sundman, (an erstwhile technical writer whose out-of-print
manuals command large sums at online auctions, now a recluse),
contains the two winning entries of the novel-writing contest
sponsored by the Society for Analytical Engines (SAE). The
introduction to Cheap Complex Devices, written by the SAE
Contest Committee, contains the history of the contest and
explains the criteria by which the entries were judged.
"It is odd
and unnerving to review novellas written by software constructs,
especially novellas as good as those found in the pages
of Cheap Complex Devices. Skeptics will scoff; ignore them.
Read Cheap Complex Devices for yourself, and get unnerved.
Get a good grip on your human self esteem, and prepare to
be enlightened. The future is here, we cannot outrun it.
Confront it, warm to it, come to love it in the sublime
prose of this book."
- Hugh Betcham
Betcham Review Services
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