Heinrich Hauser 3 hr 29 min read

'This is it, doctor; we're almost there', but Lee protests they crossed the California coast just half an hour ago; even at 1200 miles an hour they couldn't be near Washington.

Heinrich Hauser's 1948 novel is an ambitious AI-and-hard-SF tale of a giant thinking machine. Vivid, ominous, thought-provoking. Read it for an early, large-scale story of a vast computer brain built to run the world, and the question of what such a mind might come to want for itself.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).