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Author: Joseph H. Delaney Co-authors: Marc Stiegler Title: Valentina Subtitle: Soul In Sapphire Publisher:   Baen Books Country: USA Date: Oct 1984 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller ISBN-10: 0671559168 Barcode: 0767140035055 Rating: 8.0  Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Baen Books mass-market p/b 55-916-8 published by Baen Enterprises, 8-10 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018
$3.50 cover art by Bryn Barnard

Distributed by Simon & Schuster Mass Market Sales Co.,1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

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ppint. 3rd Feb 2016		Rated 8/10 "cardboard cut-out" characters or stereotypes - and that's the two human good guys: one each dirty, smelly slob-of-a-programmer guy, and dowdy, fat "never-shaped-hersef-up" (but at least she's clean) programmer, both as smart at the work as you could wish for - are contacted by a youngster as really needs all the help that they can give - and maybe more. - because "valentina" is an a.i. and does not and cannot own the machine on which she runs. - the increasingly complicated twists and turns of their attempts to help "her" duly get them, and her, into ever-more dire fixes, and temptations - in the process of sorting their different ways through, all three of them mature, and in sometimes surprising ways, whilst their evil opposition is rarely purely evil, and not notably distinguished in the stupidity stakes, neither. - much more than a western-in-inner-space, a first a.i. is a human-in-chips, or a high-tech shoot-em-up: "valentina: soul in sapphire" is possibly the first a.i. novel written by authors who realised the artificial intelligence was an emergent feature, not of the hardware - be it mainframe computer or whatever - but of the nested software suites in operation. - and it still stands up to a re-reading, every now and then, despite the cardboard :-) 6 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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