Randall Garrett 1 hr 8 min read

Spaceship McGuire has vast knowledge but no wisdom, smart, yet incredibly foolish, and, naturally, he keeps asking questions too profound for any philosopher, like 'Who are you?'

Randall Garrett's 1962 story is a clever AI-and-space-opera tale of a brilliant, childlike thinking ship. Witty, sharp golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story about a genius machine whose innocence lands its handlers in very deep, very funny trouble.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 8 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Roy G. Krenkel