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Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End would be my recommendation though I'm not sure how it falls into the comp-fi genre.
by onemoresoop 7y ago
Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End would be my recommendation though I'm not sure how it falls into the comp-fi genre.
- sideshowb 7y agoOne of my favorite books ever, but I would categorize it as classic sci fi with little computation.
- onemoresoop 7y agoIf you think about it in a different way the computation is there, or at least see it in a metaphoric way, the overlords were enabling all civilizitations to be assimilated into a whole of information. It is a very interesting perspective that is twisting the mind into uncomfortable ways to think about it. The idea in this book stayed with me since i first read it, a long long time ago
- mannykannot 7y agoHis short story "Dial F for Frankenstein" (1961) [1] might be a better candidate for an early example of the genre. No programming is involved, but there's no magic explained away as technology, either. For prescience, however, I don't know of anything that beats Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe" (1946) [2]. [1] https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2506 https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2506 [2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/19/a_logic_named_joe/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/19/a_logic_named_joe/