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When HARLIE Was One

David Gerrold

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Published 1972 by Ballantine Books · 279 pages

Hugo Nominee 1973Nebula Nominee 1973
Science Fiction

Synopsis

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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US

ISBN

9780345028853

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