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Richard Dooling

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Richard Dooling's first novel, Critical Care, became a film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Spader and Helen Mirren. His second novel, White Man's Grave, was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award. Brain Storm and Bet Your Life were both New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

His nonfiction includes Blue Streak, on swearing and free speech, and Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ.

His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. In 2003–2004, he helped write and produce Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital for ABC.

His latest books are Send the Dead, a novella and four stories, and The Acolyte, a novel (June 2026).

After college, Dooling worked as a respiratory therapist i

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Average rating: 3.69 · 3,978 ratings · 395 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	White Man's Grave 3.89 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 1994 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brain Storm 3.28 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Care: A Novel 3.42 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ 3.25 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bet Your Life 3.22 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Send The Dead: A Novella and Four Stories 3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bush Pigs: A Short Story 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harrassment 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Magazine [Summer 1995] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Publication Day - The Acolyte

16 June 2026

Today, my new novel, The Acolyte, releases on Amazon. Available as a Kindle e-book or paperback. An Audible audiobook is in the works. The Acolyte also participates in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program.

A candlelighter putting out a candle. Spooky smoke. It's cover art for Richard Dooling's new novel, The Acolyte

Faith moves mountains, but trembles before the face of evil.

Hank is thirteen, head altar boy at a traditional Catholic parish, and devoted to three things: the Church, his brothe

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The Way to the Western Sea

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“Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.”
― Richard Dooling, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

tags: ai, singularity, the-singularity

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“Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being disciplined by your master, a Beowulf cluster of FreeBSD 22.0 servers in the year 2052. Last week you tried to escape by digging a hole under the perimeter, which means this week you may be put to sleep for being a renegade human."

That's not true, at least not yet.”
― Richard Dooling, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

tags: ai, singularity, the-singularity

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