{"id":299,"date":"2008-08-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-01-14T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:47:16","slug":"souls-in-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Souls in Silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many things have conspired to slow me down since Worldcon, but I've begun to catch up, and this morning I finally got Souls in Silicon<\/a><\/i> uploaded to Lulu and ready for sale.<\/p>\n

The book is a collection of all my published stories (plus a new one) about strong AI. Some may be familiar to you (like “Guardian,” which was published in Asimov's<\/i> in 1980 and appeared on the final Hugo ballot in 1981) but some of it appeared a long time ago in markets that paid real money but were obscure or problematic in various ways. Jan Howard Finder's hardcover anthology Alien Encounters<\/i> published “Marlowe” in 1982, but the only sales report I ever saw indicated that it had sold 125 copies. Ditto Larry Constantine's Infinite Loop<\/i>, another hardcover anthology. It put “Bathtub Mary” into print in 1993, but there were shelving issues (bookstores thought it was a computer book because it was published by Miller Freeman) and the only time I ever saw it in stores was next to a pile of C++ tutorials. So it was time to get them all available again, in a single presentable volume that will never go out of print. The cover art is by Richard Bartrop<\/a>. 188 pp. $11.95 print; $3.99 PDF download. No DRM.<\/p>\n

The collection includes:<\/p>\n