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“The Menace of the Machine” is another of the excellent volumes in Mike Ashley’s British Library of Science Fiction Classics. In this volume he concentrates on the AI as a theme in Science fiction. It follows the usual pattern of an interesting introduction followed by the progenitors of science fiction and a selection of Golden Age stories. Each individual entry also has its own introduction. The early entries such as “Moxon’s Master” by Ambrose Bierce and E. M. Forester’s “The Machine Stops” remain effective. The “Golden Age” selections are very good—especially “Two-Handed Engine” by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner.
This is an enjoyable book and quite inexpensive to buy (you can read it for free with Kindle Unlimited but many might like to have it for their own).
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