May 11, 1997: Supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov.

And from a supercomputer beating a world champion at chess, it's just ONE SMALL STEP TO THE TERMINATOR.

And from the Terminator, it's just ONE SMALL STEP TO A SENTIENT PRISON THAT IS MAYBE POSSIBLY A LITTLE BIT BANANAS.

Then again, we could end up with Data instead, so maybe it's worth the risk...

Anyway, from my post about Incarceron:

Finn, a member of the especially brutal Comitatus, woke up three years ago with no memory of his past. Some of his fellow prisoners believe that Finn is 'cell-born', a child of Incarceron, created by Incarceron, while others believe he is simply half-mad. What he believes is quite different: He believes he came from Outside. Though no one has left Incarceron in over a century (except one legendary man), Finn believes his flashbacks of a life Before, his knowledge of things he could never have known or experienced Inside, could have come from nowhere but Outside. 

On the Outside is Claudia. The Warden's daughter, she has been raised to be the next Queen. She lives in a world forced to adhere to the traditions, culture and technology of 17th-century life. Finn's world is brutally violent, and Claudia's world is no less so -- it's just less obvious. Violence, political machinations, blackmail and assassinations are hidden behind complex and formal etiquette. Within Incarceron, there are fights to the death.  Outside, there are dangerous secret alliances, a secret society, even a secret religion. 

I finally, finally read Sapphique a little while back... I should probably write about it, eh?