Five Cautionary SF Tales About Enhanced Intelligence

[james_davis_nicoll]

Enhanced intelligence would be awesome.... right?

Five Cautionary SF Tales About Enhanced Intelligence

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[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 392, 2023 article 39

[(Anonymous)]

"Brain Wave" sounds very much like Vernor Vinge's 'zones of thought' concept from "A Fire Upon the Deep" (an excellent novel).

-Awesome Aud

[patrick_morris_miller]

If I recall, it was generally held on rasfw that Fire was, among other things, a homage to Brain (and, it seems to me, a mash note to Anderson in general).

[(Anonymous)]

I think Vinge dedicated the book to Anderson

[dragoness_e]

It's been years since I read it, but in Podkayne of Mars, wasn't it a bit of backstory that both Podkayne and Clark had been bred or designed for enhanced intelligence?

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

I don't see much love for Tetrasomy Two anywhere, possibly because it was Oscar Rossiter's only novel. It's sorta like Drunk Gallagher ... but not really as the condition really starts to take hold of the protagonist.