Manfred comments on Superintelligence fiction - "Understand", by Ted Chiang - Less Wrong Discussion
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The should have understood the concept of love.
The superpowers are fun, but pretty implausible. I think a lot of the fun is because it's out of the mainstream. We have so many stories where being crazy-superpower-smart just means making fancy gadgets, or developing an inflated ego and pulling off one successful scheme before perishing at the hands of the hero.