Dreaming Metal
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ISBN: 0312858760 / Publisher: Tor Books, June 1997
When entertainer and illusionist Celinde Fortune takes her act to Persephone--a planet torn apart by class struggle--and combines two computer chips that seem to simulate artificial intelligence, she finds her life threatened by the planet's radicals
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Scott returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships, and, as in several of her novels, takes up the theme of artificial intelligence. Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval. Celinde Fortune is an entertainer - an illusionist who makes good money but plays the Empire Theatre, a venue that also books socially controversial bands who attract bomb threats. When she combines two advanced computer chips in a new way in order to sophisticate her act, the resulting form of computer life seems awfully like a true artificial intelligence. And this is beyond controversial - it could get her killed.
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