Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, called M. John Harrison "a genuinely original thinker, a genre-defying writer who takes ideas seriously." Yuki Sugiura/The Booker Prize Foundationhide caption
robocop Turns 39 on July 17, yet its sharpest ideas no longer sound like science fiction. Its warnings about a culture based on artificial intelligence, corporate power, privatized policing, and violent entertainment are more recognizable today than in 1987. This staying power is remarkable considering that director Paul Verhoeven almost passed on the project after
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