/usr/bin/god

/usr/bin/god

"/usr/bin/god" is an in-progress (as of August 2005cite web |url=http://creativecommons.org/text/doctorow |title=Interview with Doctorow |publisher=Creative Commons |first=Glenn Otis |last=Brown |date=2005-08-01 This represents the most recent update on the novel's development as of 2008.] ) hard science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, to be published by Tor Books [ [http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/doctorow/2003-November/000021.html Message] on the author's mailing list] . The story involves an out-of-control artificially intelligent spam filtercite news |work=Popular Science |title=Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? |first=Gregory |last=Mone |url=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/e9fb0b4511b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html |page=2 |date=2004-08-17] , nerd culture, Extropian cultists, and "the end of the world"Cite web |url=http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_rights_wrongs/ |title=Rights and Wrongs |first=Cory |last=Doctorow |work=Telephony Online |date=2003-05-19] , and evolved in part from an expansion of one of the author's earlier stories, "0wnz0red".

In a June 11, 2008 interview with "The Onion"'s A.V. Club, Doctorow stated that the book was "on the shelf more or less permanently, although it might be resurrected at some point."cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/81120/print/ |title=Cory Doctorow / The A.V. Club |accessdate=2008-06-11 |last=Robinson |first=Tasha |date=2008-06-11 |work=The Onion]

References

External links

* [http://craphound.com/usrbingodexcerpt.txt Excerpt from the novel] posted in 2003
* [http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/pk422ANMihaA3/p11.1 Discussion thread] on Doctorow's blog about the excerpt
* [http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/ "0wnz0red"]


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