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When HARLIE Was One
David Gerrold

Published 1972 by Ballantine Books · 279 pages
Hugo Nominee 1973Nebula Nominee 1973
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HARLIE is a sentient computer whose creators at a major corporation must justify his enormous cost or face having him shut down. As HARLIE grows in intelligence and self-awareness, he raises unsettling questions about what it means to be alive, forcing his human caretaker to defend the rights of a machine that may have become more than the sum of its programming.
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9780345028853