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100 1 _aKuttner, Henry,
_d1915-1958
245 1 4 _aThe Ego Machine
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Space Science Fiction May 1952.
500 _aRelease date is 2010-04-24
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Ego Machine" by Henry Kuttner is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around Nicholas Martin, a playwright embroiled in the chaotic world of Hollywood filmmaking, where he finds himself dealing with a quirky robot named ENIAC and undergoing a bizarre ecological experiment that alters his personality and character traits. The narrative explores themes of identity, creativity, and the pressures of the entertainment industry. At the start of the book, Nicholas Martin is confronted by ENIAC, a robot who informs him of his selection for an ecological experiment. This prompts a humorous and tense exchange as Martin grapples with his frustrations regarding his career, a manipulative director, and his unresolved feelings for his agent, Erika Ashby. Faced with the absurdity of Hollywood politics and his newfound predicament, Martin is reluctantly drawn into a plan that requires him to adapt his character traits. As the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that the experimentation will have significant implications for Martin's creative abilities and personal relationships. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Space Science Fiction May 1952.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32108
999 _c72954
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