Westworld isn't really a theme park -- it's an effort to simulate an entire artificial world Westworld isn't really a theme park: it's an effort to simulate an entire, artificial world. Westworld isn't really a theme park: it's an effort to simulate an entire, artificial world. Westworld isn't really a theme park -- it's an effort to simulate an artificial world

We probably won't know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present? There are two stories that keep coming to mind when I begin thinking about this show. The first is a classic novelette from 1941 called the Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon. In it, a scientist engineers live in a laboratory: tiny people called Neoterics. He accelerates their evolution, and messes with their world, killing them off indiscriminately.