They'd Rather Be Right

ISBN: 9780898651652

出版社: Walsworth Pub Co

出版年: 1982-01

定价: USD 5.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The Lost Hugo Winning Novel! From the pages of Astounding Science Fiction. Bossy was a most unusual computer. Programmed with all the known facts about the human mind, Bossy should have been the world s greatest psychologist. And she was! When Joe, the janitor, tried her out, Bossy freed the potential of his mind, turning him into a mental superman. And turned his body into that of a physically perfect human being. But the big shock was when an aging alcoholic woman tried to cure her addiction with Bossy. It worked! But it also reversed the aging process, turning her into a physically perfect genius with the body of a 20 year old! Immortality was within humanity s grasp. But when they tried it on a mentally rigid bigot, Bossy failed. Immortality it seemed was only for the open-minded and mentally flexible. Bossy s process didn t work on those who would rather be right and clung to their preconceptions and prejudices. Soon everyone involved with Bossy was in hiding from the outraged bigots of the world who were sure it was all a trick and that they were unfairly being denied immortality. Joe and the woman he loved, and the professors who programmed Bossy, were being threatened by people who didn t understand that the fault lay not in Bossy but in themselves. "That rarity, a genuinely mature sf novel with a brand new idea," raved Galaxy magazine,