/usr/bin/god was a planned hard science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, originally intended to be published by Tor Books.[1] The story was to involve an out-of-control artificially intelligent spam filter,[2] nerd culture,[3] Extropian cultists, and "the end of the world",[4] and evolved in part from an expansion of one of the author's earlier stories, 0wnz0red.[3]
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".[5]
References
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (2003-11-26). "Yesterday, I had the flat-out most amazing day of my writing career". ' Doctorow mailing list. '. http://mailman.ctyme.com/pipermail/doctorow/2003-November/000021.html. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ^ Mone, Gregory (2004-08-17). "Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?". Popular Science: p. 2. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/e9fb0b4511b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html.
- ^ a b Brown, Glenn Otis (2005-08-01). "Interview with Doctorow". Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/text/doctorow.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (2003-05-19). "Rights and Wrongs". Telephony Online. http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_rights_wrongs/.
- ^ Robinson, Tasha (2008-06-11). "Cory Doctorow / The A.V. Club". The Onion. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/81120/print/. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
External links
- Excerpt from the novel posted in 2003
- Discussion thread on Doctorow's blog about the excerpt
- 0wnz0red
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