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"I was perfectly satisfied to write science fiction knowing that it would pay very little, that it would be seen by only a very few people."
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![]() This is perhaps the earliest example of what might be called a "virtual person", although it is not created digitally.
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“This is for next Sunday morning,” Babson explained.
Yancy’s lips moved, and he spoke. “Friends,” he began, in his deep, personal, friendly, man-to-man voice, “I’ve been sitting here at my desk — well, about the way you’re sitting around your living rooms.”
But the viewer was left with the illusion of having consumed a rich and varied intellectual feast. It was amazing. And it was professional: the ends were tied up too slickly to be mere accident...
Nobody was as harmless and vapid as John Edward Yancy. He was just too damn good to be true...
This is the final effect:
The gestalt began in the regular way. There was no doubt about it: when Sipling wanted to, he could put together a good slice. And in this case he had done practically the whole pie.
In rolled-up shirt sleeves and dirt-stained trousers, Yancy crouched in his garden, a trowel in one hand, straw hat pulled down over his eyes, grinning into the warm glare of the sun. It was so real that Taverner could hardly believe no such person existed. But he had watched Sipling’s sub-crews laboriously and expertly constructing the thing from the ground up.
Compare to Adam Selene from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein, the personality simulator from True Names (1981) by Vernor Vinge, the Composite Expert System from Twenty Evocations (1984) by Bruce Sterling,
Idoru from Idoru (1996) by William Gibson, and
synthespian from Nestor Sextone for President (1988) by Jeff Kleiser. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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