� 1992: A stand-alone novel by Harry Harrison & Marvin Minsky. Unknown publication date, 2nd printing of 1993 edition:- Synopsis: New world, new mind. J J Beckworth, of Megalobe Industries, was unimpressed by whiz-kid Brian Delaney's new robot, Robin-I. The thing could talk - after a fashion - and catch paperclips, but so what? Seconds later Brian was left for dead in a savage attack by unknown assassins, his brain shattered. His only hope lay in Robin-I. For he had created a machine capable of rebuilding its inventor's mind from spare parts. Now Brian's amnesiac brain struggled to bring a new form of intelligence into the world - and the enemies of Megalobe hunted him down like a wounded animal. 'The Turing Option' combines the talents of the world's leading expert on Artificial Intelligence and a master SF storyteller in a fascinating near-future thriller:- Review(s): "One of the few intelligent novels about intelligent computers. A fast moving thriller with an exciting and gruesome climax" - Sunday Telegraph / "Harrison and Minsky raise the most provocative of questions. Very much leading edge" - Locus:- (original cost �4.99).

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Title

The Turing Option

Publisher

Penguin / ROC

ISBN 10

0140129502

ISBN 13

9780140129502

Binding

Paperback: 7" x 4�"

Illustrator

Cover Art: George Snow

Edition

1993 Edition

Printing

2nd Printing

Condition

Very Good: Light signs of wear

Weight

0.29 kilograms

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Essef - Mind meets microchip as a brilliant young genius develops a machine capable of spontaneous thought. Before he can perfect the machine, terrorists steal his research and put a bullet through his brain. Miraculously revived by methods he pioneered, he must find his lost memory and discover who is trying to kill him.

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The world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence had almost perfected a machine capable of spontaneous thought, when industrial terrorists steal his research and shatter his brain with a bullet. Now one surgeon must try to save him using his patient's own research.

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