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* '''Genux-B''', There are eight Genux-B computers on Terra (Earth), and only three in North America, at least to Joseph Stafford’s knowledge.
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* '''Genux-B''', There are eight Genux-B computers on Terra (Earth), and only three in North America, at least to Joseph Stafford’s knowledge. One GB had gone rogue?,{{verify}} flashing a Red Alert, scrambled SAC, and began a 'counterattack.' It also appeared to be responsible for America thaving conducted a strike against France in 1982, and little Israel in 1989.
   
 
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Revision as of 06:11, 21 October 2018

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Holy Quarrel” was originally published in Worlds of Tomorrow in May 1966. It can now be found in The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick on pp. 135–155.[1]

Background

The manuscript for "Holy Quarrel" arrived at the SMLA on Sep 13, 1965 – the same day as that for the ms of "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". In May 1966 the story was published in Worlds Of Tomorrow. It was never anthologized or collected until publication of the fifth volume of THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK in 1987.[2]

Plot

A Genux-B supercomputer has declared a state of red alert and plans to obliterate Northern California. Frantic repairmen learn only that the computer wishes to destroy one Herb Sousa and his chain of gum-ball machines. Genux-B believes the gum-balls are alive and that Herb Sousa is the devil incarnate.[2]

Synopsis

"Holy Quarrel" is an amusing story with humans trying to reason with a computer like in Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the more obscure movie Dark Star.[2]

Terms

  • Genux-B, There are eight Genux-B computers on Terra (Earth), and only three in North America, at least to Joseph Stafford’s knowledge. One GB had gone rogue?,[Needs verification] flashing a Red Alert, scrambled SAC, and began a 'counterattack.' It also appeared to be responsible for America thaving conducted a strike against France in 1982, and little Israel in 1989.

References

  1. Philip Dick Review, Holy Quarrel, Story background
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Philip Dick Fans, Holy Quarrel, history