"Hardware"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1987
ID: 425
Publication history:
- 1987: Omni October 1987, Magazine
- 1992: Pluto in the Morning Light (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21369-4, 396 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37068-5, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1996: Les Eléphants d'Hannibal, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-207-30579-1, in French
- 2001: Les Elphants d'Hannibal, Gallimard Mass market paperback, ISBN 2070417298, 365 pp., in French
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
NASA's Spacescoop exploration ship has brought something unusual back from the asteroids: Before long, the scientists come to the conclusion that it's an ancient alien computer, and it can communicate with the computers at the lab. And those computers are connected to other computers, which are connected…you get the idea. What are the device's intentions, and what are its capabilities? Is it threat or ally?