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Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series
series3 books1966
completed
Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in our world and near future.
“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
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David Karpstandalone novel1953
Dark in tone.
The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Time travel, challenging in tone, about technological singularity.
“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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