They'd Rather Be Right

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name = They'd Rather Be Right
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image_caption = Dust-jacket of the first edition
author = Mark Clifton & Frank Riley
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cover_artist = W. I. van der Poel
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science Fiction
publisher = Gnome Press (1957 novel)
release_date = 1954 (as a serial), 1957 (as a novel)
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 189 pp
isbn = NA
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"They'd Rather Be Right" (also published as "The Forever Machine") is a science fiction novel by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley. It was first published as a four-part serial in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1954. It won the Hugo award for best novel in 1955. It has been widely labeled as the worst novel to ever win a Hugo.Fact|date=February 2007

In it, two professors create a cybernetic brain, which they call "Bossy".

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* [http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/ratherbe.html 1982 Review by Dave Langford]

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