Ask the Next Question - Theodore Sturgeon
But here’s what I think: If you are a company that creates artificial minds, wouldn’t you want to study a new kind of mind up close? If the Con Dao Sea Monster is smart, I bet DIANIMA wants to know how smart. How it works, and maybe how it got that way.”
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea
With the emergence in 1937 of a demanding editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., at Astounding Science Fiction, and with the publication of stories and novels by such writers as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction began to gain status as serious fiction.
Campbell exercised an extraordinary influence over the work of his
... See moreThe 19th century saw a major acceleration of these trends and features, most clearly seen in the groundbreaking publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheusin 1818. The short novel features the archetypal "mad scientist" experimenting with advanced technology.[40] In his book Billion Year Spree,[41] Brian Aldiss claims Fran
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