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"The Martian" is really good book, and I loved the movie. I am looking forward to Andy Weir's new book. But ... I wouldn't put "The Martian" in the scifi AI cat
by inetsee 9y ago
"The Martian" is really good book, and I loved the movie. I am looking forward to Andy Weir's new book. But ... I wouldn't put "The Martian" in the scifi AI category.
- jpindar 9y agoWouldn't it have been interesting if there had been a not-quite-AI chatbot as part of the hab's computers?
- aaron695 9y agoI think that would have sunk the novel. The whole point and the buzz was people saw it as a novel about present day tech.
- mabbo 9y ago> I wouldn't put "The Martian" in the scifi AI category A story about a near future where a man is living on another planet. You don't think that counts as science fiction? On the one hand, I disagree ('20,000 leagues under the sea' was sci-fi when it was written). On the other hang, holy crap we're so close to humans being on Mars that such a story might not count as science fiction! That's amazing!