The Silver Eggheads

Up to page 37 of Fritz Leiber’s novel The Silver Eggheads. Fun read! I’ve laughed a few times out loud. I’m surprised to find his main character is French like in my new book The Air Over Paris where Los Angeles has become a French city. Turns out Leiber’s book is also similar to the novel I’m currently writing! Leiber seems to be quite on target with the recent obsession to have robots make art. In the future of The Silver Eggheads, book writing is done automatically by Wordmill computers until the human ‘authors’ who oversee production revolt and retake the creative process, only to discover “they could no more create it inside their bodies than they could make honey or spider silk.”