O Master Caliban!

by Phyllis Gotlieb

Overview

A Science-Fictional Tempest!

The classic novel of man against machine by Canada's greatest science fiction writer.

It's all-out combat, Man and Mutant vs. Machine in a gigantic battle for survival and control of GalFed's trash planet, Barrazan Five, also known as Dahlgren's World. Years ago, geneticist Dahlgren arrived on the planet with 100 humans and 1,000 ergs. Then the robot-ergs, their intelligence expanded by Dahlgren's experiments, rebelled and slaughtered their masters. Now it's a war for possession of Dahlgren's World, a brutally hot, highly radioactive and barely habitable jungle in space. On one side of the conflict are the ergs, who have evolved into sophisticated artificial intelligences. They are opposed by the mutants, including a talking goat, a mothering gibbon, and a four-armed youth. The mutants are allied with the remaining humans, including Shirvanian, a crybaby boy prodigy who can communicate telepathically with machines and may be man's last hope for regaining control of the planet.

And then there is the creator, Dahlgren himself ... and a game of chess unlike any other, with the fate of a planet and a people as the stakes.


DAHLGREN MEETS ERG-DAHLGREN

He was brought into a small room in which there was a screen with a chair in front of it. They locked him in and he sat down.

The screen flickered ...

"Android robot," Dahlgren murmured, feeling fear.

The body had two arms, five fingers on each. It was boned in gears and spindles, muscled in wires and flexes.

Above the neck it seemed to be flesh: it had eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, beard. Dahlgren's.

The erg-android blinked, straight into Dahlgren's eyes, blue for blue, pulled back the pink lip corners into the beard, into Dahlgren's rare smile, and raised a steel-tendoned arm, palm outward.

"Hello, Dahlgren Zero," it said. "I am Dahlgren One."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016403953
Publisher:	Event Horizon EBooks/Event Horizon Publishing
Publication date:	04/17/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Phyllis Gotlieb was a Canadian poet and science fiction author. Her novel A Judgment of Dragons won the 1982 Aurora Award for best novel.

She was the daughter of a cinema owner, spent much of her childhood with the films that they could see in the venues of her father, and decided early on to be a writer. She studied languages and literature at the University of Toronto and graduated from it in 1950 with a master's degree. Then they did initially emerged as a poet and poetry readings occurred in others Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton. In order to overcome writer's block in her poetry in the 1950s, they began at the suggestion of her husband to write SF. The resulting story A Grain of Manhood was published in 1959.

Her novel, Sunburst (1964) describes the consequences of a nuclear accident, after appearing among the genetically damaged children and those with supernatural abilities and come into conflict with society. The theme of telepathy is made in many of their texts, as well as the opportunities and dangers of genetics. In O Master Caliban! (1976) Robots are trying to create their masterpieces to newly deceased on a dangerous jungle planet from human and animal genetic material, just as he himself had constructed creatures. In addition to novels and short stories - including the feminist fantasy novel Birthstone (2007) - she continued to write poetry, but also plays and plays.

She is considered the grande dame of Canadian science fiction. After the title of her first science fiction novel - one of the first examples of Canadian SF in general - was later named in their lifetime, the Canadian science fiction literary award Sunburst.

She lived in Toronto and was with the computer science professor Calvin Gotlieb married. Age of 83 she died in 2009 of a ruptured appendix.