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Well, in that case, there's certainly HAL 9000...



Which was a machine coping as best it could with contradictory objectives.


Well, that describes every thinking thing, good or evil, that ever lived.

It just occurred to me, though, that 2061 (and its villains) do not have a coauthor, although I don't know why that's important to you. Sorry, but your claim that he didn't write villains is just a little silly, and his view of humanity was a little more complicated than "positive."

We haven't even got to the short stories. If you've got a few minutes, read Hate and reconsider your thesis: https://books.google.com/books?id=hbAqAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT13&dq=h...


Bicker, bicker, bicker. My original point is that Clarke wrote his own novels with an optimistic view of people.

But you win!




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