The Turing Option

The SFWA Grand Master and author of Make Room! Make Room!—the novel that inspired the movie Soylent Green—teams up with a pioneering artificial intelligence expert in "a fine example of collaboration, in which a scientist and a writer craft a thriller around state-of-the-art intelligence" ( Chicago Tribune).

"Brian Delany, a brilliant computer scientist at top-secret Megalobe labs, is on the brink of developing a true machine intelligence when industrial pirates penetrate security and steal his research, gravely wounding him in the process. Though a bullet has destroyed parts of his brain, the technology he created offers hope: neurosurgeon Erin Snaresbrook uses microsurgical robots and a superpowerful computer to restore Brian to consciousness. Now he races against time to re-create his research before the thieves can develop it for the marketplace, and to find out who was behind the theft before they can finish him off." — Publishers Weekly

"The resolution of the plot is handled with wit . . . Harry Harrison is one of science fiction's most prolific and accomplished craftsmen, and Marvin Minsky, one of the major contributors to the field known as artificial intelligence." — The New York Times Book Review

"A fast moving plot." — Los Angeles Times

"What is intelligence? What is the mind? The Turing Option prompts thinking into what it means to be a human being." — San Diego Review

"The authors present, in a lucid and compelling manner, complex theories about how the brain stores and organizes information." — The Washington Post Book World