The AI (Sigfried) that he wrote into Gateway had me noodling at AI (and writing BASIC interpreters, of all things) when I was in high school, in the 70s. Even t

The AI (Sigfried) that he wrote into Gateway had me noodling at AI (and writing BASIC interpreters, of all things) when I was in high school, in the 70s. Even though I knew the "compterese" bits he wrote into the sidebars of Broadhead's conversations with Sigfried were bogus, I had fun making sense of them. So, I politely disagree with you. Other computers-in-SF works that influenced me include: _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, _The Shockwave Rider_, _The Adolesence of P-1_, _When Harlie Was One_, _Michaelmas_, and a number of others. I will treasure these books, as they got my imagination started early, and they were a lot more palatable than computer reference materials in those days, which were dry and rather hard to come by if you were a kid. [edit: grammar, add some more works]