Master of the Brain
- by Laurence Manning
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “Master of the Brain” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933.
After a second long sleep, Norman Winters wakes around AD 10,000. The world is dominated by the Brain, an inexorable super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing. Thanks to its cradle-to-grave supervision, human life is easy and comfortable, but what will happen when the Brain realizes people are superfluous?
—based on Wikipedia
Certainly. . . . the Great Brain is infallible. Who would want to act contrary to reason?
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- Time Periods
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: circa AD 10,000
- Themes
- Language Difficulties: The English language had not, of course, remained so completely unchanged as recorded in this narrative. Many new words had been coined and old ones forgotten. But in most cases the meaning was plain enough and long explanations and definitions which Winters had to undergo have been spared the reader by substituting twentieth-century words.
- Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.
- Groupings
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- “Master of the Brain” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933.
Translations
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- German.
“Herr des Gehirns” [Lord of the brains] by Laurence Manning, in Der Jahrtausendschläfer (Heyne, February 1977). - German.
“Die Waldbewohner” [The forest dwellers] by Laurence Manning, in Der Jahrtausendschläfer (Heyne, February 1977).