From: amselem@dingolptl.jussieu.fr (Denis Amselem )
Subject: Re: LIT: Author of Simulacron III
Date: 2 Nov 92 15:27:35 GMT



In article <1992Oct27.071634.22738@u.washington.edu>, bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendleton) writes:
|> 
|> There was a 60s SF book called, I believe, "Simulacrum II" I can't
|> remember the author, sorry. The basic plot was that the inhabitants of
|> a VR discovered that they were simulations when they started noticing
|> that someone was messing with them in god like ways...
|> 
|> Seems they had just started running their own simulations (level 2)
|> and the owners of the level 1 simulation wanted the level 2
|> simulations shut down because of the CPU drain caused by running
|> simulations on simulated CPUs. Or something like that.
|> 
|> Fun to think about anyway. BTW, if anyone has a copy of this book, I'd
|> like to hear about it.
|> 

The book you are talking about is Simulacron III by Daniel F. Galouye.
It was published in 1964.
I can hardly help on the editor as I have a french version...
When I read the book -about 10 yeas ago- I really liked it. For sure
the author prooved to have a strong imagination to dare in 1964 thinking of
computers as artificial worlds builders.

Denis A.

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