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This file contains a list of novels and stories which contain one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters. Most of characters whose intelligence places a title on this list are effected or affected through the use of hardware, software or genetic alteration (rarely). Additions and corrections would be most appreciated as the list compiler <Garet Sheppard> has not read all of the works listed here - or even a significant portion, and will probably never have a chance to do so. My thanks to Dan Bloch and Robert Stanley for suggestions, ideasand editing.

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Date: 7 Apr 91 02:01:30 GMT

From: [email protected] (Garet Sheppard)

Subject: Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3 (1600 lines)

Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3

-Apr 6 1990-

The list uses the following AI definitions:

A androids - robots in human form

C computer systems - intelligent stationary computers or networks

H humans in computerized/program/digitized form

N non-mechanical, human created intelligences - usually biological

O other intelligences - intelligent tanks, books, planets, whatever

P programs - intelligent entities able to move between computer systems

R robots - mobile, usually mechanical AIs

S ships - intelligent; only mobile in the form of a (star)ship

Y cyborgs - born human, almost completely replaced by machine parts

* new/improved - information has changed since last edition

e evolved - any of the AI forms which evolved their intelligences

(expanded definitions are listed at the end of the list)

Author

AI type Title

Abe, Kobo

C Inter Ice Age 4 (or _Dai yon kampo-ki_)

Adams, Douglas Noel

* R Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [Monk of Belief]

R Life, the Universe and Everything

* R So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Marvin]

CRS The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

R The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adlard, Mark

C? Interface

C? Multiface

Alban, Antony

C Catharsis Central

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

R `All the World's Tears`

R? `Comic Inferno`

? `Full Sun`

? `Neanderthal Planet`

A `Pink Plastic Gods`

A `Super-Toys Last All Summer Long`

? `The Hunter at His Ease`

R `The New Father Christmas`

R `Who can Replace a Man?`

? Who can Replace a Man? (coll)

Alexander, Marc

R The Mist Lizard

Allen, J.

C? Data for Death

Amminnus, Marcellinus (pseud.)

C `The Thought Machine`

Anderson Poul

EO? `Epilogue` [mechanical life]

AC `Goat Song`

HY? `Kings Who Die`

R `Quixote and the Windmill`

S `Starfog`

R? `The Critique of Impure Reason`

? A Circle of Hells

? Brainwave

C? The Avatar

Anfilov, Gelb

? `Erem`

Anmark, Frank

A? `The Fasterfaster Affair`

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)

? OX

R Blue Adept

C Heaven Cent

CR Juxtaposition

C Man from Mundania

? Mute

? Omnivore

CR Orn

CR Out of Phase

CR Robot Adept

CR Split Infinity

C The Vale of the Vole

CR Unicorn Point

Anthony, Piers & Margroff, Robert & Offutt, Andrew J.

A `Mandroid`

Anvil, Christopher

? `The Hunch`

Appleton, Victor (pseud.)

? Terror on the Moons of Jupiter

Asimov, Isaac

C `All the Troubles in the World`

R `Catch that Rabbit`

? `Death Sentence`

R `Escape!` or `Paradoxical Escape`

A `Evidence`

R `Feminine Intuition`

R `First Law`

C `Franchise`

R `Galley Slave`

C `Jokester`

R? `Lenny`

R? `Let's Get Together`

R `Liar!`

R `Little Lost Robot`

? `Mirror Image`

C `Profession`

R `Reason`

R? `Risk`

R `Robbie` or `Strange Playfellow`

R `Robot AL-76 Goes Astray`

R `Runaround`

R? `Sally`

R `Satisfaction Guaranteed`

A `Segregationist`

C `Someday`

R `Stranger in Paradise`

A `That Thou Art Mindful of Him!`

A `The Bicentennial Man`

C `The Computer that Went on Strike`

R `The Evitable Conflict`

C `The Last Question`

C `The Life and Times of Multivac`

C `The Machine that Won the War`

R `The Tercentenary Incident`

R `Victory Unintentional`

AO Foundation's Edge [planet]

A Foundation and Earth

R I, Robot (coll)

* A Prelude to Foundation

CR Robot Dreams

A Robots and Empire

A Robots of Dawn

A The Caves of Steel

A The Naked Sun

R The Stars, Like Dust

R The Rest of the Robots (coll)

Asimov, Janet (Janet O. Jeppson)

R? Norby and the Lost Princess

R? Norby, the Mixed-up Robot

R? Norby's Other Secret

Balchin, Nigel

C `God and the Machine`

Ball, B.

R Night of the Robots

Bangs, John K.

R? The Worsted Man

Banks, Iain

A? Player of Games

? Consider Phlebas

Banks, Raymond E.

C `Walter Perkins is Here!`

Bannon, M.

R Wayward Robot

Barrington, J Bayley

R The Soul of the Robot

Barth, John

C Giles Goat-Boy (or _The Revised New Syllabus_)

Bass, T.J. (pseud)

O Ball [Cybers]

S Half Past Human

O The Class One [Cybers]

Y The Godwhale

O Toothpick [Cybers]

Bates, Harry

R `Farewell to the Master`

Baum, L. Frank

R? Glinda of Oz

R? Ozma of Oz

R Tik-Tok of Oz

R The Tin Woodman of Oz

Bayley, Barrington J.

R Soul of the Robot

Y? The Garments of Caean

? The Rod of Light

Bear, Greg

N Blood Music [nanobiorobots]

H Eon

H Eternity

Beaumont, Charles

R? `In His Image`

A? `Last Rites`

Bene't, Stephen Vincent

? `Nightmare Number Three`

Benford, Gregory

? `Doing Lennon`

O Across the Sea of Suns [Alien Machine Intelligence]

ACHR Great Sky River

* O In the Ocean of Night [Alien Machine Intelligence?]

* O Tides of Light

Berckman, Evelyn

? The Voice of the Air

Bester, Alfred

? `Adam and No Eve`

A `Fondly Fahrenheit`

O `Something Up There Likes Me` [satellite]

C Computer Connection (or _Extro_)

* Y? Golem^100

Bickham, Jack M.

C Ariel

Bierce, Ambrose

R? `Moxon's Master`

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

R `In His Own Image`

? `Spare the Rod`

Binder, Eando (E. and Otto Binder)

R `Adam Link Faces a Revolt`

R `Adam Link Fights a War`

R `Adam Link in the Past`

R `Adam Link in Business`

R `Adam Link Saves the World`

R `Adam Link's Revenge`

R `Adam Link's Vengeance`

R `Adam Link, Champion Athlete`

R `Adam Link, Robot Detective`

R `From the Beginning`

R `I, Robot`

R? `Iron Man`

R `The Robot Aliens`

R `The Trail of Adam Link`

R Adam Link: Robot (coll)

Y Enslaved Brains

Bischoff, David

C Wargames

Bixby, Jerome

R `Guardian`

Blade, Alexander (pseud.)

C The Brain

Blish, James Benjamin

A `I, Mudd`

R `Now the Man is Gone`

Y `Solar Plexus`

R? `The Apple`

? `The Box`

R `The Changeling`

C Cities in Flight

? Midsummer Century

Bloch, Alan

R `Men Are Different`

Bloch, Chayim

R? `The Golem`

Bloch, Robert

R `Almost Human`

R `Comfort Me, My Robot`

R `The Tin You Love to Touch`

Bone, J. F.

? `Triggerman`

Boucher, Anthony

R `The Quest for Saint Aquin`

Boulle, Pierre

C `The Man Who Hated Machines`

A `The Perfect Robot`

Bounds, Sydney J.

Y `No Greater Love`

R The Robot Brains

Bova, Benjamin William

? `The Perfect Warrior`

? `THX 1138`

S? `Stars Won't You Hide Me`

Bova, Ben & Ellison, Harlan

R `Brillo`

Boyce, Chris

H? Catchworld

Boyd, Felix (pseud)

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

Boyd, John

CR? The Last Starship from Earth

Bradbury, Ray

A `Changeling`

A `Downwind from Gettysburg`

R? `Dwellers in Silence`

R `I Sing the Body Electric`

R `Marionettes, Inc.`

R? `Punishment Without Crime`

A `The Long Years`

* O `There Will Come Soft Rains` [house]

R? `Usher II`

Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Henry

R `Pendulum`

Breuer, Miles J.

C? `Paradise and Iron`

Brin, David

R? `The Warm Space`

C Startide Rising

C The Postman

C The Uplift War

Brin, David & Benford, Gregory

H Heart of the Comet

Brink, Carol Ryrie

R `Andy Buckram's Tin Men`

Brown, Fredric

* O? `Etaoin Shrdlu` [printing press]

C `Answer`

Browning, John (Robert Moore Williams)

R `Burning Bright`

R `Robot's Return`

Bruckner, Karl

R The Hour of the Robots

Brunner, John Kilian Houston

R `Judas`

? `The Invisible Idiot`

? `Thou Good and Faithful`

? `You'll Take the High Road`

A? Slaves of Space (or _Into the Slave Nebula_)

C Stand on Zanzibar

Bryning, Frank R.

R `The Robot Computer`

Budrys, Algis (pseud.)

A `Dream of Victory`

R `First to Serve`

R? `In Human Hands`

R? Annsirs and the Iron Man

C Michaelmas

Y Who?

Bulmer, Kenneth

R `Never Trust a Robot`

Bunch, David R.

H? `Moderan`

R? `The Problem Was Lubrication`

Bunting, Eve

R The Robot People

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey

? `The 480`

? Fail-Safe

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

A? Synthetic Men of Mars

A? The Monster Men

Butler, Samuel

Ce Erewhon

Caidin, Martin

C The God Machine

Cameron, Lou

C Cybernia

Campbell, John Wood, Jr.

R `The Last Evolution`

R `The Last Revolution`

C? `The Metal Horde`

? `When the Atoms Failed`

? The Mightiest Machine

Capek, Karel

R R.U.R., A Fantastic Melodrama

Card, Orson Scott

* Ce Speaker for the Dead

Carr, Terry

? `City of Yesterday`

R `In His Image`

R `The Robots Are Here`

Carrigan, Richard and Nancy

? The Siren Stars

Carter, Angela

O The Informal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Carver, Jeffrey A.

Re From A Changeling Star [nanomachines]

P The Infinity Link

C The Rapture Effect

Chalker, Jack L.

CP Birth of Flux and Anchor

P Empire of Flux and Anchor

S Lords of the Middle Dark

CRS Masks of the Martyrs

RS Pirates of the Thunder

* CS Quest for the Well of Souls [planet]

* CS The Return of Nathan Brazil [planet]

* CS Twilight at the Well of Souls [planet]

RS Warriors of the Storm

Chandler, A. Bertram

? `The Left-Hand Way`

? `The Soul Machine`

Chapdelaine, Perry A.

? `We Fused One`

Cherryh, C. J. (pseud)

? Voyagers in Night

Clarke, Arthur C.

Y `A Meeting With Medusa`

? `Crusade`

Oe `Dial "F" for Frankenstein` [satellite relay]

R? `Expedition to Earth`

? `Superiority`

S 2001: A Space Odyssey

S 2010: odyssey two

? 2061: odyssey three

O The City and the Stars [city]

C The Foundations of Paradise

Clement, Hal (Harry Stubbs)

C? `Answer`

Clifton, Mark and Apostolidas, Alex

? `Crazy Joey`

? `Hide! Hide! Witch!`

Clifton, Mark and Riley, Frank

C They'd Rather Be Right (or _The Forever Machine_)

Clouston, Joseph Storer

R Button Brains

Coblenzt, Stanton A.

? `Lord of Tranerica`

Cole, Burt

C The Funco File

Collins, Graham P.

P Variations on a Theme

Compton, David Guy

? Synthajoy

C The Steel Crocodile (or _The Electric Crocodile_)

Y? The Unsleeping Eye (or _The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe_)

Coney, Michael G.

Y? `Troubleshooter`

? Freinds Come in Boxes

Conley, Rick

? `The War of the Words`

Cook, Glen

* S The Dragon Never Sleeps

Cook, Robin

? Brain

Cook, William Wallace

R A Flight Through Time or (_A Round Trip to the Year 2000_)

Cooper, Edmund

A `The Uncertain Midnight`

R The Overman Culture

Coppel, Alfred

R `For Humans Only`

R `The Hunters`

Correa, Hugo

R `Meccano`

Coupling, J. J.

RY? `Period Piece`

Cousey, James

A? `The Show Must Go On` or `So Lovely So Lost`

Cowper, R

? Clone

Crichton, Michael

CY? The Terminal Man

Crossen, Kendell Foster

? Year of Consent

Cumings, Ray

R `Almost Human`

Dahl, Roald

Y? `William and Mary`

Daley, Brian

PS Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Dann, Jack

Y? `I'm With You In Rockland`

Davidson, Avram

? `The Golem`

Davidson, Michael

H The Karma Machine

Davies, L. P.

R? The Artificial Man

Davis, Chan

A `Letter to Ellen`

de Camp, L. Sprague

R `Internal Combustion`

Deighton, Len

C The Billion Dollar Brain

Delaney, Joseph H. & Stiegler, Marc

Pe Valentina: Soul in Sapphire

Delany, Samuel R.

C City of a Thousand Suns (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

C Empire Star

C Out of the Dead City (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

* HO Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand [galactic database]

C The Einstein Intersection

C The Fall of the Towers

C The Towers of Toren (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

del Rey, Lester

R `A Code for Sam`

R `A Pound of Cure`

R `Helen O'Loy`

R `Instinct`

R `Into Thy Hands`

Y `Reincarnate`

R `Robots Should Be Seen`

R `The Master`

R `Though Dreamers Die`

R `To Avenge Man`

R `Vengeance is Mine`

R The Runaway Robot

Dick, Philip K.

Ce `Autofac`

? `If There Were No Benny Cemoli`

A `Impostor`

R? `Oh, to be a Blobel!`

? `Progeny`

ARe `Second Variety`

R `Service Call`

R `The Defenders`

AHR? `The Electric Ant`

C? `The Great C`

? `The Preserving Machine`

C? `The Variable Man`

? `War Veteran`

C A Maze of Death

A Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

? Dr. Bloodmoney

? Martian Time Slip

? Simulcra

R The Penultimate Truth

C Vulcan's Hammer

A We Can Build You

Dickson, Gordon Rupert

C `Computer's Don't Agrue`

R? `Steel Brother`

C `The Monkey Wrench`

? Necromancer

Dnieprov, Anatoly

O `Crabs Take Over the Island` [crabs]

? `Siema`

Dowling, Richard

R? The Fate of Luke Ormerod

Drake, David & Allen, Roger MacBride

O The War Machine [Artificial Inteligence Devices AIDs]

Duane, Diane

C? Spock's World

Dunsany, Lord Edward (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of

Dunsany)

? The Last Revolution

Durham, Jim

? `F.O.D.`

Durrell, Lawrence

C Tunc

CR Nunquam

Easton, Thomas

R? `Breakfast of Champions`

Edmondson, G. C.

? The Cunningham Equations

Eisenberg, Larry

* R `The Fastest Draw` [Robot Cowboy]

Eklund, Gordon

R `Second Creation`

R `The Shrine of Sebastian`

Elder, M.

? Paradise is Not Enough

Ellis, Edward S.

R? The Steam Man of the Praries

Ellison, Harlan

CY `Catman`

C `I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream`

Endore, Guy

Y? `Men of Iron`

Escarpit, Robert

C The Novel Computer

Etchison, Dennis

A? `The Fires of Night`

Ewers, Hans Heinz

A? `Alraune`

Fairman, Paul W.

R? `Robots Should Stick Together`

R The Forgetful Robot

H I, The Machine

Farmer, Philip Jose

* C The Gods of Riverworld

* C The Magic Labyrinth

* O -last book of world of tiers- [evil machines in bells]

Farrere, Claude

R? Useless Hands

Fine, Stephen

A? Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android

Firbank, Arthure Annesley Roland

R? The Artificial Princess

Fischer, Michael

R? `Misfit`

Flagg, Francis (pseud.)

R `The Mentanicals`

Forest, Jean-Claude

R Barbarella

Forward, Robert

S? The Flight of the Dragonfly

Foster, Alan Dean

* A Alien [Ash]

* A Aliens [Bishop]

CO Dark Star [intelligent bomb]

R The Black Hole

C The Tar-Aiym Krang

Foster, E. M.

C? `The Machine Stops`

Franke, Herbert

R `The Man Who Feared Robots`

Frayn, Michael

Y? The Tin Men

Friborg, Albert Compton

? `Careless Love`

Fritch, Charles E.

A? `Greever's Flight`

Fyfe, H. B.

R? `Let There Be Light`

R? `The Well-Oiled Machine`

Gallun, Raymond Z.

R `Derelict`

? `Mind Over Matter`

? `The Scarab`

Galouye, Daniel

C? `Counterfeit World`

R? `The Reign of the Telepuppets`

Garfarth, John

R? `Lack of Experience`

Garrett, Randall Z.

S `A Spaceship Named McGuire`

* O `The Hunting Lodge` [house-computer]

A Unwise Child

Gault, William Campbell

R? `Made to Measure`

R `Title Fight`

Gawron, J. M.

? Algorithm

Gelula, Abner J.

R `Automaton`

George, Peter

? Two Hours to Doom

Gerrold, David

C? `Oracle for a White Rabbit` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

C `The God Machine` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

? A Day for Damnation

? A Matter for Men

RS Space Skimmer

C When Harlie Was One & release 2.0

Gibson, William

CHP Count Zero

CHP Mona Lisa Overdrive

CHP Neuromancer

Gilliland, Alexis

P Corporate Saskesh (includes the following three novels)

P Long Shot for Rosinante

P The Pirates of Rosinante

P The Revolution From Rosinante

Glut, Donald F.

* R The Empire Strikes Back

Glynn, A. A.

? Plan for Conquest

Gold, H. L.

R? `Problem in Murder`

Goldin, Stephen

Ce `Sweet Dreams, Melissa`

Goldstone, Herbert

R `Virtuoso`

Goulart, Ron

A? `Badinage`

R `Calling Dr. Clockwork`

? `Cybernetic Tabernacle Job`

R? `Dingbat`

A? `Gigilo`

R? `Muscadine`

R? `Nobody Starves`

R `Regarding Patient 724`

R? `What's Become of Screwloose?`

R? Clockwork's Pirates

* R Into the Shop [ai car]

R Suicide, Inc.

CR? The Emperor of the Last Days

Goy, Philip (pseud.)

C Le Livre Machine

Grant, Charles

A The Shadow of Alpha

Gravel, Geary

C? The Alchemist

Green, Joseph

C? `Space to Move`

Grey, Charles (pseud.)

Y? Enterprise 2115

Groves, J. W.

R `Robots Don't Bleed`

Gunn, James E.

A? `Little Orphan Android`

? `The Message`

Hadley, Arthur

? The Joy Wagon

Haig, A.

? The Peruvian Printout

Haldeman Joe

* Y `More than the Sum of his Parts`

Hamilton, Edmond

A? `After a Judgement Day`

Y `The Comet Doom`

CR `The Metal Giants`

R Captain Future

Harness, Charles

H? The Ring of Ritornel

Harris, John Benyon (John Wyndham)

R `Sleepers of Mars`

R `Stowaway to Mars`

Harrison, Harry

R `Arm of the Law`

? `Homeworld`

R? `How the Old World Died`

R `I Always Do What Teddy Says`

R? `I Have My Vigil`

? `I See You`

? `Make Room, Make Room`

? `Survival Planet`

* R? `The Man from R.O.B.O.T.`

* Y `The Powers of Observation`

? `The Repairman`

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

P? `The Simulated Trainer`

R `The Velvet Glove`

R `War With the Robots`

R? The Stainless Steel Rat

Hartridge, Jon

C Binary Divine

Heinlein, Robert Anson

? `Revolt in 2100`

C `That Dinkum Thinkum`

R Friday

CS The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

* Ce The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

S The Number of the Beast

CS Time Enough for Love

S To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Herbert, Frank

CM Destination: Void

Herbert, Frank and Ransom, Bill

C Jesus Incident

C Lazarus Effect

* C? The Ascension Factor

Hickey, H. B. (Herb Livingston)

R `Full Circle`

R? `Hilda`

High, Philip E.

? `The Mad Metropolis`

Highstone, H. A.

? `Frankenstein to Unlimited`

Hjortsberg, William

Y? Gray Matters

Hoch, Edward

C? The Transvection Machine

Hodder-Wiliams, Christopher

? 98.4

C Fistful of Digits

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

R? `Automaton`

R `The Sandman`

Hogan, James P.

Re Code of the Life Maker

CS Giant's Star

C? The Genesis Machine

S The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

Ce The Two Faces of Tomorrow

CR Voyage from Yesteryear

Holis, H. H.

? `Cybernia`

Holly, J. Hunter

R `The Graduated Robot`

Holmes, H. H. (Anthony Boucher)

AR `Q.U.R.`

AR `Robinic`

Horton, Forest W., Jr.

A The Technocrats

Hoyle, Fred and Elliot, John

C A for Andromeda

C Andromeda Breakthrough

Hubbard, L. Ron

R? `Tough Old Man`

Hughes, Ted

R? The Iron Man

Jackson, A. A. & Waldrop, Howard

R? `Sun Up`

Jacob, Sylvia

R `Slave to Man`

Jameson, Malcolm

? `Pride`

Jenkins, Will F. (Murray Leinster)

C `A Logic Named Joe`

Jerome, Jerome K.

R `The Dancing Partner`

Jeter, K. W.

R Infernal Devices

Johannesson, Olof (pseud.)

C The Great Computer (or _The Tale of the Big Computer_)

Jones, D. F.

C Colossus and the Crab

C Colossus: The Forbin Project

C The Fall of Colossus

Jones, Neil Ronald

Y `The Jameson Satellite`

Y Doomsday on Ajiat

Y Planet of the Double Sun

Y Sunless World

Y The Sunless World

Y Twin Worlds

Jones, Raymond F.

? `Rat Race`

R? `The Gift of the Gods`

Y? The Cybernetic Brains

Kagan, Janet

C Hellspark

Kahn, James

* AR Return of the Jedi

Kapp, Colin

R? `Gottlos`

Karlins, Marvin

? The Last Man Is Out

Kelleam, Joseph E.

R `Rust`

Keller, David H.

CY? `The Cerebral Library`

Y? `The Eternal Professors`

R `The Psychophonic Nurse`

R `The Threat of the Robot`

Key, Alexander

R Bolts, a Robot Dog

R Rivets and Sprockets

R Sprockets, a Little Robot

Keyes, Daniel

R `Robot Unwanted`

Kilian, Crawford

P? Brother Jonathan

Kingsley, Charles

? The Heroes (anth)

Kippax, John (John Hynam)

R `Friday`

Kleier, Joe

Y? `The Head`

Knight, Damon

H `Masks`

C Stranger Station

? The Metal Smile

Knootz, Dean R.

CR Demon Seed

? Midnight

Kornbluth, C. M.

R? `The Education of Tigress McCardle`

Y `With These Hands`

Krahn, Fernando

R Robot-bot-bot

Kuttner, Henry

A? `Android` or `As Those Among Us`

R? `Happy Ending`

? `Jesting Pilot`

R? `Piggy Bank`

R? `The Ego Machine`

R Robots Have No Tails (as Lewis Padgett)

R The Proud Robot

Kuttner, Henry and Moore, C. L.

R? `Two Handed Engine`

Lack, G. L.

? `Rogue Leonardo`

Lafferty, R. A.

* H `Eurema's Dam`

* O? `Hog Belly Honey` [strange machine]

C Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Lamont, Duncan (pseud)

C `Production Job`

Laumer, Keith

? `Dinosaur Beach`

Y? A Plague of Demons

O Bolo [self aware tanks]

O Rogue Bolo [self aware tanks]

C The Great Time Machine Hoax

Lee, Tanith

* H? Drinking Sapphire Wine

R The Silver Metal Lover

Leherman, Herb

O `Revolt of the Potato Picker` [field machine]

Leiber, Fritz

R? `The 64-Square Madhouse`

R `A Bad Day for Sales`

? `Answering Service`

R `The Mechanical Bride`

RY? The Silver Eggheads

Leiber, Justin

P? Beyond Humanity

Leinster, Murray (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

R? `Exploration Team`

? `The Wabbler`

? The Lost Spaceship

Lem, Stanislaw

R `In Hot Pursuit of Happines`

C `The Computer That Fought a Dragon`

R `The Hunt`

R `The Mask`

R `The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius`

R `The Seventh Sally`

? Mortal Engines

R Return From the Stars

C The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (or _Cyberiada_)

Oe The Invincible (or _Niezwyciezony_) [machines]

Leman, Grahame

? `Conversational Mode`

Leroux, Gaston

R The Machine to Kill (or _La Machine a assassiner_)

Lesser, Milton

A `"A" As in Android`

Levin, Ira

R The Stepford Wives

C This Perfect Day

Lewis, C. S.

R That Hideous Strength

Liddel, C. H. (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

A `Android`

Long, Frank Belknap

R `The Robot Empire`

R It Was the Day of the Robot

Longyear, Barry B.

AR Naked Came the Robot

C Sea of Glass

Loomis, Noel

A `The State vs Susan Quod`

Lowenkopf, Shelly

A? `The Addict`

Lucas, George

R Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Lymington, J.

C? Year Dot

Mackin, Edward

? `The Key to Chaos`

? `The Trouble of H.A.R.R.I.`

Maine, Charles Eric (Pseud)

C B.E.A.S.T.

Malec, Alexander

? `10:01`

Malzberg, Barry N.

C? `The Union Forever`

Y? The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Manning, Laurence

C `Master of the Brain`

R `The Call of the Mechmen`

MacApp, C. C.

? Omha Abides

Markham, Russ

R `The Third Law`

Martin, George R. R.

A `Modular Man`

? `The Last Superbowl Game`

Mason, Douglas R.

C Matrix

Matheson, Richard

R `Brother to the Machine`

A `Steel`

R? `The Doll that Does Everything`

Maxwell, Ann

C Timeshadow Rider

McCaffrey, Anne

Y `The Ship Who Mourned (in _The Whip Who Sang_)

Y `The Ship Who Sang (in _The Ship Who Sang_)

Y The Ship Who Sang

McCarty, E. Clayton

R `Robot 678`

McCollum, Michael

S Life Probe

S Procyon's Promise

MacDonald, John D.

R `The Mechanical Answer`

Mead, Shepherd

? The Big Ball of Wax

Meade, Malcome (pseud?)

R `Call him Colossus`

Melville, Herman

R? `The Bell Tower`

Meredith, Richard C.

H? We All Died at Breakaway Station

Merliss, R. R.

R `The Stutterer`

Merritt, Abraham

R `Rhythm of the Spheres`

Oe? The Metal Monster [inorganic alien]

MacFarlane, Wallace

A `Dead End`

McGowan, Tom

R Sir MacHinery

Milan, Victor

P Cybernetic Samurai

P? Cybernetic Shogun

Miller, Walter Michael, Jr.

A? `Blood Bank`

Y? `Crucifixus Etiam`

R `I Made You`

R `The Darfsteller`

McIntosh, J. T. (James J. MacGregor)

A `Almost Human`

? `Machine Mode`

A `Made in USA`

C? `Spanner in the Works`

A `The Deciding Factor`

R `The Saw and the Carpenter`

Mitchell, Edward Page

Y? `The Ablest Man in the World`

R `The Tachypomp`

McKinney, Jack

CR The Sentinels - 2nd Robotech collection (coll)

McLoed, Shiela

R Xanthe and the Robots

McLoughlin, John

S Toolmaker Koan

Molly, J. Hunter

R? `The Graduated Robot`

Monteleone, Thomas F.

? `Chicago`

Moorcock, Michael

C The Final Programme

? `Sea Wolves`

Moore, Catherine Lucile

Y `No Woman Born`

Moore, Harris

CH Slater's Planet

Moran, Daniel Keys

C? Armageddon Blues

CY? Emerald Eyes

CPY? The Long Run

Morris, Janet

S Cruiser Dreams

S Dream Dancer

S Earth Dreams

Nesvadba, Joseph

? `The Einstein Brain`

Niven, Larry

H `A Teardrop Falls`

Y `Becalmed in Hell`

Y `The Coldest Place`

HS A World Out of Time

CH Integral Trees

C The Schumann Computer

CH The Smoke Ring

Nolan, William F.

R? `and Miles to Go Before I Sleep`

R? `The Beautiful Doll Caper`

A? `The Joy of Living`

R? Logan's Run

Norton, Andre

A Android at Arms

O'Brien, Fitz-James

R? `The Wondersmith`

O'Conner, William Douglas

R The Brazen Android

O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr.

H Mayflies

Oliver, Chad

R? `Didn't He Ramble`

A? `The Life Game`

Oliver, J. T.

R `Teacher's Pet`

Padgett, Lewis (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

Y `Camouflage`

R? `Deadlock`

? `Ex Machine`

R `Open Secret`

R? `The Twonky`

Paul, Barbara

C? `Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"`

Perkins, Lawrence

? `Delivered with Feeling`

Perry, Roland

C? Program for a Puppet

Phillips, Alexander M.

R? `Beast of the Island`

Phillips, Peter

R? `At No Extra Cost`

A `Lost Memory`

Phillips, Rog (pseud.)

? `The Cyberene`

Pierce, John R.

? `See No Evil`

Piper, H. Beam

C Junkyard Planet (or _The Cosmic Computer_)

Pohl, Frederik

? `Day Million`

R `The Midas Plague`

? `The Schematic Man`

R? `The Tunnel Under the World`

* CP Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

* CP Gateway

* HP Heechee Rendezvous

CY Man Plus

C Starchild

? The Age of the Pussyfoot

* HP The Annals of the Heechee

Pragnell, Festus

C? `The Machine-God Laughs`

Preselie, Robert

R `The Champ`

Pychon, Thomas

R Gravity's Rainbow

Quick, W. T.

P? Systems

H? Yesterday's Dawn

Rackham, John

A? `Goodbye Dr. Gabriel`

Rayer, Francis G.

C `Deus Ex Machina`

C `The Peacemaker`

C? `Tomorrow Sometimes Comes`

Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve

C Dome

Resnick, Mike

Y Santiago

Reynolds, Mack

C? `Criminal in Utopia`

C Computer War

C? Computer World

Richardson, R. S.

R? `Kid Anderson`

Richmond, Walt and Leigh

? `I, Bem`

Riley, Frank

? `The Cyber and Justice Holmes`

Roberts, Keith

A `Synth`

Robinson, Spider

* ? Mindkiller

* ? Time Pressure

Roger, Noe"lle (pseud.)

N The New Adam (or _Le Nouvel Adam_) [manmade organic life]

Rohrer, Robert

R `Iron`

Roshwald, Mardecai

? Level 7

Rostler, William

R `Ship Me Tomorrow`

Rothmand, Milton A.

? `Getting Together`

Rucker, Rudy

CR Software

CR Wetware

Russ, Joanna

? `Nor Custom Stale`

Russell, Bertrand

Ce? `Dr. Southport Vulpres' Nightmare`

Russell, Eric Frank

R `Boomerang` or `A Great Deal of Power`

A `Jay Score`

Re? `Mechanistra`

R `Men, Martians and Machines`

R `Relic`

R? `Symbiotica`

Ryan, Thomas J.

P The Adolescence of P-1

Saberhagen, Fred

O `Fortress Ship` [berserkers]

O `Goodlife` / \

O `In the Temple of Mars` |

O `Inhuman Error` |

O `Masque of the Red Shift` |

O `Mr. Jester` |

O `Patron of the Arts` |

O `Pressure` |

O `Smasher` |

O `Some Events at the Templat Radiant` |

O `Starsong` |

O `Stone Place` |

O `The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron` |

O `The Game` |

O `The Peacemaker` |

O `The Sign of the Wolf` |

O `The Smile` |

O `What T and I Did` |

O `Wings Out of Shadow` |

O Berserker (coll) |

O Berserker Man |

O Berserker's Planet (coll) \ /

O Brother Assassin (coll) [Berserkers]

C Changeling Earth

C Empire of the East

O The Ultimate Enemy (coll)

Sandberg, Richard T.

C? `The Perfect Crime`

Saxton, Josehpine

R `Gordon's Women`

Schachner, Nat.

? `Robot Technocrat`

Schlossel, J.

R `To the Moon By Proxy`

Scortia, Thomas Nicholas

Y? `Sea Change`

A? `The Icebox Blond`

Seabright, Idris (Margaret St Clair)

R `Short in the Chest`

Sellings, Arthur

A `Starting Course`

R `The Template Teleologist`

Senarens, Luis

R? `Frank Reade and His New Steam Man`

Shaara, Michael

R `Soldier Boy`

? `2066: Election Day`

Shaw, Bob

? `Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party`

Sheckley, Robert

R `A Ticket ot Tranai`

R? `Alone at Last`

? `Ask a Foolish Question`

R `Beside Still Waters`

R `Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?`

A `Compton Divided`

C? `Fool's Mate`

R? `Human Man's Burden`

R `The Battle`

R `The Cruel Equations`

R? `The Lifeboat Mutiny`

R? `The Minimum Man`

* R `The Robot who Looked Liked Me`

R `Watchbird`

C Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Sheffield, Charles

? Trader's World

Sherman, Robert

Ce `Problem for Emmy`

Sherred, T. L.

? `"E" for Effort`

Silverberg, Robert

R? `Company Store`

? `Getting Across`

C `Going Down Smooth`

CR `Good News from the Vatican`

R `Ozymandias`

S? `Ship-Sister, Star-Sister`

R `The Iron Chancellor`

R? `The Macauley Circuit`

R Across a Billion Years

H? Time Gate

H To Live Again

AR? Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford Donald

* R? `Aesop` (in City)

R? `All the Traps of Earth`

* R `City` (in City)

R `Earth for Inspiration`

* R `Epilog` (in City)

* R `Hobbies` (in City)

R `How-2`

* R `Huddling Place` (in City)

R `I Am Crying All Inside`

? `Limiting Factor`

? `Lulu`

R `Skirmish` or `Bathe Your Bearing in Blood`

C? `Univac: 2200`

R A Choice of Gods

* OR City (coll) [dogs]

R Cosmic Engineers

R? Destiny Doll

R Project Pope

S Shakespeare's Planet

R Special Deliverance

A? Time and Again (or _First He Died_)

Simmons, Dan

PR? Hyperion

? The Fall of Hyperion

Sky, Kathleen

A? `Birthright`

Sladek, John T.

Ce Mechasm (or _The Reproductive System_)

R Roderick

R Roderick at Random

R Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine

H The Mueller-Fokker Effect (or _The Muller Focker Effect_)

? Tik-Tok

Slesar, Harry

R `Brother Robot`

Slote, Alfred

A My Robot Buddy

* A C.O.L.A.R.

Smith, Cordwainer (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)

C `Alpha Ralpha Boulevard`

R `Mark Elf` or `Mark XI`

* Y? `Scanners Live in Vain`

* C `The Ballad of Lost C'Mell`

R `The Dead Lady of Clown Town`

Y `Three to a Given Star`

C Norstrilia (_The Planet Buyer_ & _The Underpeople_)

C The Planet Buyer

Smith, E. E. "Doc"

R `Robot Nemesis`

Smith, George H.

R? `Too Robot to Marry`

Smith, George O.

? `Counter Foil`

? The Brain Machine

Stableford, Brian Michael

? The Walking Shadow

Stapledon, William Olaf

Oe Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord [dogs]

Stasheff, Christopher

SR Escape Velocity

R King Kobold Revived

R The Warlock Enraged

R The Warlock Heretical

R The Warlock Insane

SR The Warlock in Spite of Himself

R The Warlock is Missing

R The Warlock Unlocked

R The Warlock Wandering

R The Warlock's Companion

Statton, Vargo (John Russel Fearn)

R Cataclysm

Stine, G. Harry

Y? Warbots: Operation High Dragon /5

Y? Warbots: The Lost Battalion /6

StJohn, Philip (Lester del Rey)

R `The Last True God`

Strike, Jeremy

C A Promising Planet

Stuart, Don A. (John W. Campbell, Jr.)

R `Night`

C `The Machine`

R `Twilight`

Sturgeon, Theodore

R? `Killdozer`

? `Agnes, Accent, and Access`

A `The Golden Egg`

* O More than Human [gestalt mind]

Swanwick, Michael

* P? Vacuum Flowers

Tall, Stephen

R? `This is My Country`

Temple, William

R? The Automated Goliath

Tenn, William (Philip Klass)

R? `Child's Play`

A? `Down Among the Dead Men`

? `The House Dutiful`

R `The Jester`

R? `Wednesday's Child`

Tevis, Walter

R Mockingbird

Thomas, Dan

C? The Seed

Todd, Larry

R `Flesh and the Iron`

Todd, Lawrence

R `The Warbots`

Townes, Robert Sherman

? `Problem for Emmy`

Tremaine, F. Orlin

R `True Confession`

Tubb, E. C.

A `A Captain's Dog`

R `Logic`

C `Moon Base`

Turner, George

Y Beloved Son

Vance, Gerald

? We, The Machine

Vance, Jack

Y? `I-C-a-BEM`

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

R `Automaton`

R `Final Command`

C? `Fulfillment`

A All the Loving Androids

CR Computerworld

? Mission to the Stars

C The Infinite Machine

C? The Players of Null A [cloning]

C The World of Null A [cloning]

Varley, John

* H? `Overdrawn at the Memory Bank`

* P `Press Enter`

C Millenium

Varshavsky, Ilya

R `Homonculus`

Vincent, Harl

R `Rex`

Vinge, Joan D.

H? `Fireship`

Vinge, Vernor

S? `Long Shot`

? `The Accomplice`

Pe `True Names`

P The Peace War

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

C `EPICAC`

Y? `Fortitude`

C Player Piano

R The Sirens of Titan

Wallace, F. L.

R `Seasoned Traveller`

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

S The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

S The Wizard and the War Machine

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

R? `The Ideal`

Wellen, Edward

A `Androids Don't Cry`

* C `Finger of Fate`

? `No Other Gods`

A `Voiceover`

Wells, H. G.

R? `When the Sleeper Wakes`

West, Wallace

A `Sculptors of Life`

White, E. B.

R? `The hour of Letdown`

White, James

R `Second Ending`

White, Ted

A Android Avenger & the Spawn of the Death Machine

Wilding, Eric (pseud)

Y `Deathwish`

Wilhelm, Kate

A `Andover and the Android`

Y `Windsong`

Willer, Jim

C Paramind

Williams, Robert Moore

R `Robot's Return`

R `The Metal Martyr`

Williams, Waltehr Jon

CH Hardwired

Williamson, Jack

R? `After Worlds End`

R `And Searching Mind`

R? `Guinevere for Everybody`

R `With Folded Hands`

Y? Lifeburst

R The Humanoid Touch

CR The Humanoids

Wodhams, Jack

? `Sprog`

Wolfe, Bernard

Y? `Self Portrait`

Y? Limbo

Wolfe, Gene

C? `Alien Stones`

* H? `The Fifth Head of Cerberus`

Woods, W. C.

C Killing Zone

Wright, S. Flower

R `Automata`

Wylde, Thomas

* ? Clypsis

H? Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway

Wyndham, John (John Lucas Benyon William Harris)

R `Compassion Circuit`

R? `The Lost Machine`

Young, Michael

? The Rise of Meritocracy

Young, Robert F.

R? `Emily and the Bands Sublime`

A? `Juke Doll` or `Doll Friend`

R `Robot Son`

R `September Had Thirty Days`

Zamiatin, Eugene

C? We

Zebrowski, George

SY? `Starcrossed`

Zelazny, Roger

O `Devil Car` [ai car]

R `For a Breath I Tarry`

R `Home Is the Hangman`

O `Itself Surprised` [Berserkers]

O `Last of the Wild Ones` [ai car]

C `Leaves of Grass`

C `Loki 7281`

C `My Lady of the Diodes`

H `Permafrost`

C Blood of Amber

Y Creatures of Light and Darkness

O Doorways in the Sand [ai recording unit, invades host's body]

OR Roadmarks [ai book]

C Sign of Chaos

C The Trumps of Doom

Zelazny, Roger & Saberhagen, Fred

CH Coils

Zebrowski, George

? `Starcrossed`

Zebrowski, George and Carrington, Grant

? `Fountain of Force`

I need more information about any of the above with a query mark under the AI type field, as well as about the following.

`The Floating World` in _Asimov's_

a series of stories about Willie Shorts

Connie Willis' _Fire Watch_ AI's

Doomstar by Perry and Reeves

Forbidden Planet; Robbie the Robot; author?

Holly in "Red Dwarf"

The (A) containing Callahan stories by Spider Robinson

The Purgatory Computer, Piers Anthony

* The rest of Stine's _Warbots_ series

Warren Norwood's Ship/computer book

removed from the list:

Anderson Poul - `Sam Hall`

Asimov, Isaac - `The Dead Past`

Bellamy, Edward - `Looking Backward`

Brunner, John - The Shockwave Rider

Caidin, Martin - Cyborg (or The Six Million Dollar Man)

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Children (Xenocide) as yet unpublished

Clarke, Arthur C. - `The Nine Billion Names of God`

Crichton, Michael - Sphere

Elliot, Bob et al. - `The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter`

Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber - The Lathe of Heaven

Lee, Tanith - The Eletric Forest

Miller, Walter M., Jr. - `Dumb Waiter`

McIntyre, Vonda N. - `The Genius Freaks`

Oliver, Chad - `Transformer`

Sturgeon, Theodore - `The Macrocosmic God`

Tiptree, James R. - `The Girl Who Was Plugged In`

Zelzany, Roger - My Name is Legion

Things not included:

Dr. Who stuff (K-9, Daliks, Cybermen)

ST:TNG stuff (Mr. Data)

expanded definitions:

All of the following should be able to pass the Turing test, and should be/have been (at the minimum in their original forms) products of human or alien intelligence. "Standard" definitions of intelligence apply.

androids (A) - robots in humanoid form, these can be mechanical and/or organic (_Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep_).

computer systems (C) - these range in size and type from a fair sized mini computer (_Ariel_) to an planetary

computer (_Colossus_) to a galactic network with one single mind (_Speaker for the Dead_).

humans in computerized/program/digitized form (H) - these tend to be copies of people which only exist in computerized form - such as the hacker in (_Neuromancer_) and folks of City Memory in (_Eon_).

non-mechanical, human created intelligences (N) - beings which have been (in most cases) genetically altered or are biological (_Blood Music_). NOT forced evolution

other intelligences (O) - beings which are difficult to categorize: anything Berserker, tanks, books, planets, planets (Asimov's Gaia), satellites, etc. Where (O) is used, the particular form has also been named when known.

programs (P) - able to move independently from one computer system to another, usually created by a program(mer) _The Adolescence or P1_).

robots (R) - constitute functional and specialized beings which are mobile and are not (S) or (P). Anything between vaguely humanoid (Dr. Who's Cybermen) and computers on wheels (R2D2) can be considered robots of the 'functional' robot class. 'Specialized' robots are those which are geared/optimized to performing one job - they can look like either androids (The Terminator) or functional robots (Val's from _Pirates of the Thunder_).

ships/computer systems (S) - essentially an (A) which is only mobile in the form of a (star) ship (_Pirates of the Thunder_). However, there are cases where the (S) is essentially a well programmed (R) which is only mobile as stated (_The Number of the Beast_).

cyborgs/mechanical humans (Y) - strictly speaking these are not AI. The definition here is that the (Y) is either (1) a human brain in control of a computer system/star ship (_The Ship Who Sang_) where at the very least the person's brain has been modified to contain computerized parts (_The Rapture Effect?_) (Did you ever wish that you could have a math co-processor?). (Y)'s are NOT (for the purpose of this list) organic beings whose natural body parts have beenreplaced by mechanical ones (ie. Luke Skywalker after his forearm was severed, or bionic people). unsure/no idea (?) - just what it says, so someone PLEASE read it and tell me what type is is and whether it belongs here.

evolved AI being (e) - usually begin as man-made devices hich then develop intelligence on their own (_Valentina_).

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War of the Worlds Season 1 Recap: Aliens, Cyborg Dogs, Emily, Sacha and the Mystery Tattoo

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Warning: contains major spoilers for War of the Worlds season one.

The first thing to remember about Howard Overman’s moodily atmospheric War of the Worlds is that if novelist H.G. Wells were here today (and had the required TV streaming package), he probably wouldn’t recognise it as his story. Aside from an alien invasion that wipes out much of Earth’s population, the TV drama had little crossover with Wells’ novel. Instead of tripods with heat rays, it had cyborg dogs with machine gun heads. Instead of a solitary journalist wandering around Woking, it had a large cast of scientists, soldiers, teenagers and others, spread across the UK and France. Instead of dealing with themes of colonial imperialism, it was mostly about family and loss. And instead of red weed-spreading Martians it had… well, that’s the question. Ahead of season two’s arrival on Epix in the US and Disney+ in the UK, here’s the story so far…

Emily’s Eyesight and Alien Tattoo Connection

The series one cliff-hanger appeared to reveal that the aliens behind the invasion were human, and dying. When London teenager Emily (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) entered an alien ship, drawn there by what seemed to be her psychic link to the aliens, she saw a humanoid with the exact same circle-inside-a-circle tattoo as her. In some mysterious way, the invaders were connected to her.

Before the invasion, Emily had been blind as a result of degenerative condition Stargardt disease. After the alien ships landed, whenever she was close to a ship, or to the killer cyborg dogs that formed the invaders’ vanguard, Emily regained her sight in black and white. The murderous cyborgs didn’t attack her, and when she touched one, she had a vision of herself with a young man she didn’t recognise. Emily could feel what the aliens were feeling: they had come to Earth because they wanted to live.

Bill, Helen, the London Survivors, and the Biological Weapon

Emily Gresham was part of a group of survivors in central London, which included her mother Sarah (Natasha Little) and younger brother Tom (Ty Tennant). The family had survived the aliens’ brain-destroying magnetic wave because they were in an underground car park when it was triggered. Anybody underground, underwater, or surrounded by metal survived. That left the Gresham family (whose dad Jonathan was in Paris at the time of the attack and also survived the wave when his taxi drove into the river), neuroscientist Bill (Gabriel Byrne) and his ex-wife Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), who were in a metal elevator at the time of the wave, and former child soldier Kariem (Bayo Gbadamosi), a refugee who’d entered the UK smuggled inside a tanker. The group joined up with hospital worker Ash (Aaron Heffernan), whose pregnant fiancée had died in the first attack.

Bill and Helen’s son Dan had also survived the wave in a government bunker, but he was killed by the cyborg dogs soon afterwards. When Dan’s parents discovered his body, Helen made Bill promise to find a way to destroy the aliens. They took an inactive cyborg dog to Bill’s university laboratory where he performed tests and discovered that it contained a very simple organic organism and therefore was just a foot soldier created by the real invaders, who had yet to show themselves. Bill planned to develop a biological weapon that would wipe out the invaders, but before he could, Helen was shot dead by one of the cyborgs. Emily was unharmed in the attack, which made Bill mistrust her and her mysterious connection to the aliens.

War of the Worlds Director on the Significance of Emily’s Tattoo

By Louisa Mellor

War of the Worlds Director: the Title ‘Was Perhaps Unhelpful’

By Louisa Mellor

Sacha’s Incestuous Origins and Alien Connection

Meanwhile, in Paris, Emily and Tom’s dad paired up with Frenchwoman Chloe (Stéphane Caillard) to travel together in safety. He wanted to return to his family in London and she wanted to find her teenage son Sacha (Mathieu Torloting), who was being raised by her parents. In Amiens, Chloe found her parents dead, but Sacha and her older brother Noah alive. It was revealed that Noah, who was suffering from the early stages of muscular dystrophy, was Sacha’s father as well as his uncle. He had raped his sister when she was 15 years old, resulting in Sacha’s birth.

When Sacha learned what Noah had done, he allowed him to be killed by a cyborg dog, and gradually became more and more untrustworthy and violent. Sacha had survived the brain-frying wave despite not being underground or underwater, and shared the same connection to the cyborg dogs as Emily. They didn’t attack him, and when he touched one, he saw a vision of himself with a pregnant future version of Jonathan’s daughter Emily, whom he recognised thanks to a family photo he stole from Jonathan. That trio ended the season on their way to the UK to help Jonathan find his family, but secretly, Sacha was really going there to find Emily.

Astrophysicist Catherine and the Observatory survivors

Also in France, at the Grenoble Observatory, scientist Catherine Durand (Léa Drucker) was investigating the alien invasion. She learned that they had landed on Earth exactly one year after her team of astrophysicists had sent a signal into space containing a recording of the Nick Cave song ‘Into My Arms’, which the aliens had intercepted. During that time, the aliens had completed a full scan of the Earth and its people’s DNA.

The Observatory was protected by a group of soldiers led by Colonel Mokrani (Adel Bencherif) with whom Dr Durand started a romantic relationship. Her drug addict younger sister Sophia (Emilie de Preissac) had also found her way there, having survived the alien attack by hiding in a mountain tunnel. The estranged sisters reunited, and Sophie brought with her a young British boy named Theo, whose family had been killed by the aliens.

Why Did They Take the Babies?

Catherine Durand traced the signal and found the aliens’ mothership in the atmosphere. She also theorised that the aliens and the Cyberdogs communicated using a neurological network, which she was able to disrupt by broadcasting at a special frequency, which disarmed them. It was this neurological network that Emily and Sacha were somehow able to tap into, enabling them to know what the invaders were feeling.

As well as machine-gunning the surviving humans, the Cyberdogs had another modus operandi. In London, they stole several new-born babies from Ash’s hospital ward – infants that were later seen alive in incubators on the alien ship Emily entered in the finale. The Cyborgs were also seen murdering pregnant women to steal their unborn babies.

If the pregnancy vision Sacha saw showed his and Emily’s future child (instead of hers and Kariem’s, with whom she’s in a romantic relationship), perhaps it grew up to be the first of a race of humans who left Earth to go into space. Because Sacha and Emily had inherited genetic diseases (Stargardt for her and Muscular Dystrophy for him, who was also a product of incest), perhaps their genes caused the new inbred race to become ill, requiring them to return to Earth to find a way to save themselves? Season two will tell.

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War of the Worlds season two is currently airing on Canal+ in France, starts on Epix in the US on Sunday the 6th of June, and is due to arrive on Disney+ in the UK from July.

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