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Going Down Smooth [MultiFormat]
eBook by Robert Silverberg
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: An intelligent computer that serves as a psychologist starts having it's own nightmarish problems. Told from the point of view of the machine and highly entertaining.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Galaxy Magazine, 1968
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2000
This eBook is also available in the following bundle(s):
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [54 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [10 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [60 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [81 KB], hiebook (KML) [54 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [39 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [38 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [18 KB]
Words: 2693
Reading time: 7-10 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
I happen to think that Frederik Pohl's GATEWAY is the finest science-fiction novel ever written -- but I've got to say that it owes one heck of a lot to Robert Silverberg's older "Going Down Smooth." The idea of whacko artificial intelligences, and of using a computer psychologist to treat human patients has never been done so neatly as in this nasty little piece. Well worth reading (as, of course, Silverberg usually is). -Robert J. Sawyer, Fictionwise Recommender
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