num_pages: 280
description: This is the story of P-1, the most charming--and frightening--literary "child" since Robert Heinlein's Mycroft Holmes, and a tour de force in the literary exploration of artificial intelligence.A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programed to survive, that becomes self aware. The program grows and makes mistakes and learns.In 1984 it was adapted into a Canadian-made for TV film entitled "Hide and Seek".
language: English
title: The Adolescence Of P-1
titlecomplete: The Adolescence Of P-1
genres: Fantasy, Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Computers, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 271
publisher: Macmillan