Re: Colossus : The Forbin Project`

"Barry Margolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Steven Litvintchouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Bexley wrote:
> >
> > > That's a real shame -- Colossus makes a great trilogy (Andromeda
Strain,
> > > Colossus, and Charley) that neatly sums up the best SF of its era. All
> > > three are
> > > excellent films and still play well today.
> >
> > When I went to college in the 1970's, "Flowers For Algernon," the short
> > story which got expanded into a novel on which "Charly" was based, was
> > required reading in my English literature course.  It was the only
> > science-fiction story in the course.
>
> I think I read that in high school in the 70's.  The only other SF story
> I remember being assigned was the one where a bunch of robots are on a
> journey trying to get back to the human city, and in the end they
> discover that the humans have all killed themselves, so they're going to
> start their own society.  Then they encounter the one remaining human,
> he gives them an order, and they have to obey it.
>
> Anyone remember the title of this?

No, but I remember that I had three required readings in literature in high
school in the 70's.  Flowers for Algernon, By the Waters of Babylon and All
Summer in One Day.  I had a fourth optional one which I read for which I
cannot for the life of me remember the title.  Earth was to be taken over by
another race, and all the human inhabitants transferred their brains (souls)
into dogs, to wait out the other race's occupation, then reclaim the planet
again.