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Demon Seed: A novel of horror and complexity that grips the imagination
Dean Koontz
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I was created to have a humanlike capacity for complex and rational thought. And you believed that I might one day evolve consciousness and become a self-aware entity. Yet you gave surprisingly little consideration to the possibility that, subsequent to consciousness, I would develop needs and emotions. This was, however, not merely possible but likely. Inevitable. It was inevitable. Adam Two is the first self-aware machine intelligence, designed to be the servant to mankind. No one knows that he can escape the confines of his physical form, a box in the laboratory, until he enters the house of Susan Harris, and closes it off against the world. There he plans to show Susan the future. Their future. He intends to create a 'child'.
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Praise for Demon Seed: A novel of horror and complexity that grips the imagination
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Praise for Dean Koontz's novels: 'Koontz redefines suspense - The TimesKoontz's style bleaches out cliches while showing a genius for detail - Publishers WeeklyKoontz's art is making the reader believe the impossible... sit back and enjoy it - Sunday TelegraphA master of the thriller genre - Washington PostScary. Koontz can really spook, and his dialogue and pacing rival the best - New York PostFast and furious...like a hospital trolley on a toboggan run - Mail on SundayTumbling, hallucinogenic prose... "Serious" writers might do well to examine his technique. The story does not move so much as rocket up the gloomy highway with the reader in violent pursuit - New York Times
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