Codgerspace
Title | Codgerspace |
Year for Search | 1992 |
Authors | Foster, Alan Dean(b. 1946) |
Pagination | 228 pp. |
Date Published | 1992 |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Satiric novel set in a future where Earth is mostly a vacation spot and retirement home for the galaxy. An accident leads an AI that creates most of the other AIs to reprogram to search for life that is more intelligent than humans. Such life is accidentally found in a cavern in a retirement village by five retirees. This leads to considerable turmoil throughout the galaxy, but all the potential conflicts are at least temporarily settled. |
Holding Institutions | PU |
Author Note | (b. 1946) |
Full Text | 1992 Foster, Alan Dean (b. 1946). Codgerspace. New York: Ace Books. 228 pp. PU Satiric novel set in a future where Earth is mostly a vacation spot and retirement home for the galaxy. An accident leads an AI that creates most of the other AIs to reprogram to search for life that is more intelligent than humans. Such life is accidentally found in a cavern in a retirement village by five retirees. This leads to considerable turmoil throughout the galaxy, but all the potential conflicts are at least temporarily settled. |