Book Review: “Von Neumann’s Bug” by Phyllis and Alex Eisenstein (from Gateways)

“Von Neumann’s Bug” (VNB) is occupied with a trope familiar to science fiction fans:  the self-replicating machine.  In this case, the machine is an alien search drone named Bert who terrorizes a small, middle-class family in an attempt to rebuild itself and escape Earth’s gravity to resume its mission.  And it does so by inconspicuously tearing apart […]