Anatoly Dneprov (writer)

Anatoly Dneprov

Anatoly Dneprov

Anatoly Dneprov
Born November 17, 1919
Dnipropetrovsk
Died 1975
Nationality Soviet Union Soviet Ukrainian
Occupation Author

Anatoly Dneprov also spelled Anatoly Dnieprov (Ukrainian: Анатолій Дніпров; pseudonym, real name Anatoliy Petrovych Mitskevitch[1]) (born on November 17, 1919 in Dnipropetrovsk - died in 1975 in Moscow)[2] was a Soviet author of Ukrainian descend, whose science fiction stories were published in the United States from 1961-1970.[3] He is best known for his stories The Maxwell Equations (1963) and Iva.

Career

Anatoly Dneprov was a physicist who worked at an institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The Progress Publishers, Moscow wrote about him: His favourite subject is cybernetics – its amazing achievements to date and its breath-taking potentialities. Scientific authenticity is a salient feature of his writings.[4]

Today he is almost a forgotten writer, but his predictions about artificial intelligence and self-replicating machines are uncanny.

Selected works

"All the sensations that go to make up your spiritual ego are nothing but electrochemical impulses that travel from receptors up to the brain to be processed, and then down to effectors."
'This is where the information is convolved into the model of the object.

These thin air-cooled needles are something like those used for intermuscular injections. A thin stream of plastic material is pressed through them in short spurts. The needles are synchronized with the ultra-sound needles which are at this moment feeling around the real object. Drop by drop, from point to point, the thin stream of plastic builds the model. The scale of the model may be regulated by using these levers. They may be made larger or smaller than the real object...'
'What about the colour?'
'That's easy. In the initial state the material is colourless, but the photocalorimeter, according to the colour information received, introduces the necessary amounts of the dyes indicated...'

"Why not? Any machine tool, a lathe, for example, makes parts for

lathes like itself. So I conceived the notion of making an automatic machine that would manufacture copies of itself from start to finish. My crab is the model of such a machine."

See also

References

  1. ↑ Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Jul., 1978), p. 130
  2. ↑ "Anatoliy Dniprov biography". People.su (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "The multidimensional guide to science fiction and fantasy of the twentieth century". http://www.natsscifiguide.com/. Retrieved 19 February 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ↑ "Anatoly Dneprov". http://www.librius.net/. Retrieved 19 February 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)

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