Heinlein
future history
generation ships
Asimov
robots
interstellar empires
a science of humanity, with some confusion as to whether the primary focus should be on individual psychology or on sociology
The first sf novel was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Asimov addresses the "Frankenstein complex" in his robot stories and Anderson asks the Frankensteinian question whether it would be right to create or, in this case, to re-create human life in the appropriately entitled Genesis.
(Read the blurb on the attached cover image. Is it accurate? Ultimately, yes.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, the download of a former human being who had uploaded himself to become part of an AI challenged Gaia in GENESIS on whether it had the right to bring back a mankind which had voluntarily chosen to become extinct. But mankind would not have done THAT if Gaia, by taking over all the decision making that matters, hat not left humans feeling useless, frustrated, bored, irrelevant, driven to despair, etc. If the AIs of Earth and the galaxy kept themselves strictly arms length from mankind, neither "helping" or opposing, then Gaia did right to use stored genetic material to bring the human race back.
Ad astra! Sean
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