Details, Explanation and Meaning About List of fictional computers

List of fictional computers Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This page is intended to be a list of computers in fiction and science fiction.

Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. Fictional computers tend to be considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world.


Table of contents
1 Helpful / benevolent fictional computers
2 Harmful / malevolent fictional computers
3 Ambivalent / neutral fictional computers
4 Uncategorized
5 Computers as Robots
6 Related articles
7 External links

Helpful / benevolent fictional computers

Harmful / malevolent fictional computers

Ambivalent / neutral fictional computers

  • The unnamed computer from Fredric Brown's short story "Answer", which answers the question "Is there a God?" with "Yes, now there is a God."
  • Deep Thought, the computer that found the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Deep Thought is also the name of a non-fictional chess computer, named in its honor.
  • Earth, the greatest computer of all time in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, bought and run by mice to find the Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
  • Eddie, the shipboard computer with artificial personality in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • The Engine, a mechanical computer featured in Gulliver's Travels. This is considered to be the first fictional computer.
  • Father, the station computer in the movie .
  • Frost, the protagonist computer in Roger Zelazny's story For a Breath I Tarry; also SolCom, DivCom, and Beta.
  • HAL 9000, in (and sequels) in which the computer (HAL) starts murdering the crew when it discovers that they plan to disconnect its higher brain functions because of what they believe to be a problem. HAL's actions are later revealed to be the result of a logic conflict.
  • Hector, in Saturn 3.
  • Magic Voice, the Satellite of Love's onboard computer on Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • Mother, the ship-board computer in the SF horror movie Alien
  • WESCAC (West Campus Analog Computer) from John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy
  • WOPR (War Operations Plan and Response) from the movie WarGames
  • XERXES The ship computer system which is under the control of the annelids in the computer game System Shock 2.

Uncategorized

Computers as Robots

See separate article for all fictional computers which are described as existing in in a mobile or humanlike form:- List of fictional robots and androids

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