We also appreciated the sheer zest of his story-telling and the obvious pleasure he had taken in creating his fiction. Even so, it was Beckett who seemed to us to have written the most imaginative and endlessly inventive stories, fizzing with ideas and complete with strong characters and big contemporary themes. ‘This was a very strong shortlist, including one Booker Prize winner in Anne Enright, and two authors who’ve been Booker shortlisted in Ali Smith and Shena Mackay. Yet, once the judging process started, it soon became clear that The Turing Test was the book that we’d all been impressed by, and enjoyed, the most – and one by one we admitted it.

In fact, though, it was also a bit of surprise to the judges, none of whom knew they were science fiction fans beforehand. Comments from James Walton, Chair of Edge Hill panel of judges: ‘I suspect Chris Beckett winning the Edge Hill Prize will be seen as a surprise in the world of books. The so-called Turing test is a three-person game in which a. Winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award 2009, this a collection of 14 short stories by the author of Dark Eden and The Holy Machine. In 1950, the British mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing published a paper outlining a provocative thought experiment. You can read this before The Turing Test PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Turing Test written by Chris Beckett which was published in 2008–. Brief Summary of Book: The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

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