Counterfeit World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel F. Galouye
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: 2034
- Setting: A simulation of Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Twenty-first century, Robots or robotics, Artificial intelligence, Dopplegangers
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
Counterfeit World was filmed for German television in 1973 as Welt am Draht (The World on a Wire) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and released in England as a two-part film under the same title. The story opens as Doug Hall returns from a vacation at an isolated cabin, where he was recovering from seizures brought on by stress and overwork. He discovers that Horace P. Siskin has appointed him director of RIEN Reactions, an organization that samples public opinion with a new computer containing an electronically simulated population. Although the...
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