Mwalimu, I agree with you about the movie of “Killdozer", but the original “Killdozer” novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944) is superb and often reprinted; one of my favorites. I’ve considered including it in one of my reprint anthologies as an story of an evil anthro bulldozer, but the story specifies that it’s a machine possessed by an alien intelligence, not alive itself. But I do recommend the story highly.
There is also "Sally" by Isaac Asimov in "Fantastic", May-June 1953, about sentient killer cars -- one of Asimov's few stories about AI robots without positronic brains.
This also reminds me of Phil Geusz’s 1997-1998 novel “Transmutation NOW!”, in which an actor has himself medically transformed into a white rabbit to play the White Rabbit in an “Alice in Wonderland” movie. That might have been necessary in 1997, but now? Tim Burton made his 2010 “Alice in Wonderland” with an excellent CGI White Rabbit. Geusz’s novel is still great reading, but completely outdated now.
Mwalimu, I agree with you about the movie of “Killdozer", but the original “Killdozer” novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944) is superb and often reprinted; one of my favorites. I’ve considered including it in one of my reprint anthologies as an story of an evil anthro bulldozer, but the story specifies that it’s a machine possessed by an alien intelligence, not alive itself. But I do recommend the story highly.
There is also "Sally" by Isaac Asimov in "Fantastic", May-June 1953, about sentient killer cars -- one of Asimov's few stories about AI robots without positronic brains.
This also reminds me of Phil Geusz’s 1997-1998 novel “Transmutation NOW!”, in which an actor has himself medically transformed into a white rabbit to play the White Rabbit in an “Alice in Wonderland” movie. That might have been necessary in 1997, but now? Tim Burton made his 2010 “Alice in Wonderland” with an excellent CGI White Rabbit. Geusz’s novel is still great reading, but completely outdated now.
Fred Patten