alt Hacker News> his publisher ended up dropping him
That's not really the point. Critics the world over LOVED the book; they only distanced themselves from it when it became clear it was AI, but when they didn't know, they couldn't stop raving about it.
> his publisher ended up dropping him
That's not really the point. Critics the world over LOVED the book; they only distanced themselves from it when it became clear it was AI, but when they didn't know, they couldn't stop raving about it.
because of its politics. There were plenty of people who thought it was dreck from the beginning.