/usr/bin/god

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/usr/bin/god is an in-progress (as of August 2005[1]) hard science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, to be published by Tor Books[2]. The story involves an out-of-control artificially intelligent spam filter[3], nerd culture[1], Extropian cultists, and "the end of the world"[4], and evolved in part from an expansion of one of the author's earlier stories, 0wnz0red.[1]

In a June 11, 2008 interview with the Onion's A.V. Club, Doctorow stated that the book was "on the shelf more or less permanently, although it might be resurrected at some point."[5]

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  1. ^ a b c Interview with Doctorow by Creative Commons. This represents the most recent update on the novel's development as of 2008.
  2. ^ Message on the author's mailing list
  3. ^ Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?, page 2, at Popular Science's website
  4. ^ Dossier: Cory Doctorow at Telephony Online, a website
  5. ^ Robinson, Tasha (2008-06-11). Cory Doctorow / The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.

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