Series
Laurent Michaelmas
Algis Budrys · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 1975–1978
Algis Budrys' Michaelmas is a science-fiction novel about Laurent Michaelmas, a globally trusted television newsman who secretly steers world events from behind the scenes with the help of Domino, an artificial intelligence only he controls. Budrys frames Michaelmas as a hidden protector keeping a fragile near-future world from chaos, blurring the line between reporting the news and making it. It stands as a single novel, not part of a longer series.
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- 1970s3
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1 novel · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionartificial intelligenceour worldnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
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- A Scraping at the Bonesdarkest · calmest
- Michaelmasbrightest · most intense