jsloan@wright.EDU (John Sloan) (11/17/86)
>>"The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven/Pournell > This novel is remarkable for the complete lack of computer technology. Must be thinking of _Oath of Fealty_ by the same authors, containing a sentient computer named MILLIE. _The Mote in God's Eye_ lacked a lot of high tech stuff because the powers that be froze the technological state of their culture at a level that they believed would prevent global/near space conflicts. Also the three D.F. Jones Colossus books whose titles someone couldn't remember were were _Colossus_, _The Fall of Colossus_, and _Colossus and the Crab_. -- ______________________________________________________________________ John Sloan jsloan@wright.{CSNET,UUCP} ...!cbosgd!wright!jsloan Computer Science Department, Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435 +1 513 873 2491 belong(opinions,jsloan). belong(opinions,_):-!,fail.
cochran@usc-oberon.UUCP (Steve Cochran) (11/24/86)
<...> There is also all of the "Robot" stories by Isaac Asimov (their 'positronic' brains seem to fit the definition of a sentient computer), and the Minerva/Athene and the Dora computers in Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love." Steve Cochran USC-IRIS