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ISBN 1-929752-30-X

51100>

Rosalita

Associates

Machines can play chess better than a grand-

master, throw a better curveball than an all-star.

But can they do the most human thing of all?

Can they tell a story?

Mind Over Matter Volume Red

ROSALITA ASSOCIATES

See www.wetmachine.com

$11.00

If Charles Dickens were a parallel processor, if Leo Tolstoy were

made of silicon, if Valdimir Nabokov wrote in hexadecimal, if John

Updike had a universal power supply and a cooling fan, they might

have written

Cheap Complex

Devices

Winners of the inaugural Hofstatder Prize for computer-written

novels awarded by the prestigious Society for Analytical Engines.

The state of the art in mechanically-constructed narrative, the

future of ction.

“It is odd and unnerving to review novellas written by software constructs, especially

novellas as good as those found in the pages of Cheap Complex Devices. Skeptics

will scoff; ignore them. Read Cheap Complex Devices for yourself, and get unnerved.

Get a good grip on your human self esteem, and prepare to be enlightened. The

future is here, we cannot outrun it. Confront it, warm to it, come to love it in the

sublime prose of this book.”

- Hugh Betcham Betcham Review Services

John Compton Sundman, editor of Cheap Complex Devices,

was a long-time technical writer at Digital Microsystems,

Inc. Before that he had a brief career in law enforcement.

Now retired, he lives on Stanhope Island, Maine, where his

chief recreation is correspondence chess.

Cheap Complex Devices

Edited By John Compton Sundman

Cheap Complex Devices

Enna boobie, it’s cold

Cheap Complex

Devices

Mind Over Matter Volume Red

John Compton Sundman

Rosalita Associates

Edited by

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/

or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305,

USA.

On one hypothesis, this is a work of fiction. All resemblances to real people and/or entities and

actual events are most likely coincidental.

Rosalita Associates

Post Office Box 2641

Greenwood Avenue, Tisbury MA 02568

www.wetmachine.com

Book design by Gary Gray and John Sundman

Cover design by Gary Gray

Heroic wrestling with InDesign by Gary Gray

Good cheer and lots of unpaid tedious work by Gary Gray

Being smart when Sundman is being stupid by Gary Gray

Wetmachine website design by Kelly Evans and John Sundman

Maintenance and support by Paul Ahn and Gary Gray

More patience than I’m rightfully due by Betty Burton, Grace Lillian, Jake, and Jainaba.

Paavo cribbed one phrase from Beatrix Potter. The first person to spot it wins $25.00. Send

entries to potter@wetmachine.com.

ISBN 1-929752-27-X

Printed and bound in the United States of America.

54321

For Yasine Diallo, who drew water from the well for me,

and for her son Amadou, who hungered,

And for Mamadou Ousmane Tall, who took me in,

And for Aïsetta Toomba, the cutest little girl in Fanaye

Thus it is clear that the human race has at best a very limited capacity

for solving even straightforward social problems. How then is it going

to solve the far more dicult and subtle problem of reconciling freedom

with technology? Technology presents clear-cut material advantages,

whereas freedom is an abstraction that means dierent things to dif-

ferent people, and its loss is easily obscured by propaganda and fancy

talk.

Ted Kaczynsky

“Industrial Society and

Its Future”

We have reached an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability;

and something is bound to come of it.

Vannevar Bush

“As we may think”

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