With 17 books and numerous short pieces of nonfiction and fiction under his belt, Kuhns is a much-published writer. Some highlights…
The Electronic Gospel (1969)
Taking a strong Jungian slant, this series of essays explores ways in which modern media imitate, replicate, and supplant traditional religious functions. Eight years after Kuhns’s book appeared, George Lucas would reiterate a similar theme with Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977), a film structured on the mythic studies of Joseph Campbell.
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The Post-Industrial Prophets: Interpretations of Technology (1971)
"An important book that compares the interpretations of a number of well-known commentators on current technological society. . . . Kuhns serves a very valuable service in placing these writers into a composite picture which reveals the biases of each of them and shows the weakness of each when it occurs."
— Choice Magazine
— Choice Magazine
"Kuhns’ book can also be credited as the first attempt to connect authors, concepts, and approaches in order to provide the new study field [of media ecology] with a coherent and well-defined frame and scope.”
-- Paolo Granata, Introduction to Media Ecology
-- Paolo Granata, Introduction to Media Ecology
“First-class adventure” - Publisher’s Weekly
“Almost unbearable tension and terror” - Natchez Democrat
“The Zen of an Intelligent Machine” (1985)
Kuhns’s first play was written in the early 1980s. It tracked the building of a conscious humanoid robot, coaxed to life by the zen-practicing computer wizard, Victor, and his sidekick Laszlo. Today, we all live under the looming prospect of an Artificial Intelligence vastly surpassing our own – a theme known intimately to Victor and his creation. Within two years of completion, the play was produced on professional stages in Montreal, Edmonton, and Los Angeles.