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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. The word robot comes from the Czech word for labor. This is Old Europe! Our next lesson Score: 3 , Insightful.
I really wish they'd mentioned that the author intended to rip off well known titles as part of a series of short stories. Proud tradition Score: 2 , Insightful.
Re:I, Slashdot Score: 2. Is this the sort of creativity we can expect from loosening up copyright? I got distracted by the robot sculpture after reading the word "Capeesh? Re:cool robot scultpture Score: 2 , Funny. I'm sure 15, words isn't enough to stop some whores though ;-. Re:cool robot scultpture Score: 5 , Funny. Re:cool robot scultpture Score: 2 , Informative. From BoingBoing [boingboing. IP Score: 1 , Funny. Next he will be sued by Asimov's estate for violation of his Intellectual Property.
Re:IP Score: 5 , Interesting. Except that the original "I, Robot" short story was not written by Asimov, but by a guy named Eando Binder in Re:IP Score: 5 , Funny.
But Otto suffered from multiple personalities. One of whom, Emily, thought she was a Czech farmer. Re:IP Score: 3 , Funny. Except, that the Czech farmer she thought she was, always dreamed of being a butcher. Re:IP Score: 2. But not, of course, a butcher of meat. Rather, a butcher of logic. Re:IP Score: 1. To clear up some possible confusion.
Score: 2 , Informative. I'm not sure that his IP could be any more violated [imdb. Re:IP Score: 5 , Informative. References: Copyright protection not available for names, titles, or short phrases [copyright. Slightly off-topic, but very amusing paragraph I came across in my copyright searches: How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?
Having read the story, this is more clever than you realise. I couldn't bare to read past the mastrubating into hats paragraph. I froze when I read about Jack Chalker having died; I hadn't heard. Reply to sig Score: 2 , Funny.
Of course, I'm old enough that Michael Jackson probably wouldn't be interested. Re:Reply to sig Score: 3 , Insightful. Obviously, let's just overlook a century or more of blacks passing as white; ignore even the current political ramifications of that history and how it helped foster and mutate internalized racism augmented and supported by class-ism in the African-American community light skin blacks thinking they're better than dark skin blacks, and middle-class blacks thinking they're better than lower class blacks ; all so we can make the non-winning, unintelligent, homophobic argument that "if you can hide, you don't.
Must be easy to get attention for your short stories when you give them names that were formerly used for best selling novels and blockbuster movies. It's on slashdot so I guess his trick has worked. Well it's a trick that seemed to work for Isaac Asimov. The original "I, Robot" was a short story written by Eando Binder. Isaac Asimov was apparently appaled when he learned that his collection was going to be renamed from "Mind and Iron" to "I, Robot".
GPL'd story? Is it an official fork of the Asimov book? Re:GPL'd story? My first thought was along those lines too. Folks, the movie was a bad enough idea, but a short story. There are millions of other possible titles. Get a grip! The Right to Read Score: 2. No, NO.
It's 'cause Asimow didn't listen to me and made his X11 -style license [opensource. I do wonder why they don't cite sources these days after all the crap they give us in college The title Score: 5 , Insightful. Of course if people did that, there would be no discussions here, would there? Re:The title Score: 2 , Insightful. Re:The title Score: 2 , Funny. I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the toalitarian [sic] assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives.
What a coincidence! Just this morning, I myself embarked upon a series of drawings intended to undermine the assumptive usage of light and shadow in the French Impressionist movement. Which is to say, What the Fuck is a Cory Doctorow? Neat Idea - shame about the writing Score: 4 , Informative.
I do like the way he's dissected some of the ideas in Asimov. It's just a shame his writing style is stilted and ungainly. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Note: This is the fixed version of a truncated version of this file that was previously uploaded here.
I was struck immediately by one of the thin places in Asimov's world-building: how could you have a society where only one company was allowed to make only one kind of robot? Exploring this theme turned out to be a hoot. I worked in some of Orwell's most recognizable furniture from , and set the action in my childhood home in suburban Toronto, 55 Picola Court.
The main character's daughter is named for my god-daughter, Ada Trouble Norton. I had a blast working in the vernacular of the old-time futurism of Asimov and Heinlein, calling toothpaste "dentifrice" and sneaking in references to "the search engine. My "I, Robot" is an allegory about digital rights management technology, of course. This is the stuff that nominally stops us from infringing copyright yeah, right, how's that working out for you, Mr Entertainment Exec? This story was written at a writer's workshop on Toronto Island, at the Gibraltar Point center, and was immeasurably improved by my friend Pat York, herself a talented writer who died later that year in a car wreck.
Not a day goes by that I don't miss Pat. This story definitely owes its strength to Pat, and it's a tribute to her that it won the Locus Award and was a finalist for the Hugo and British Science Fiction Award in the same year.
He'd been decorated on three separate occasions by his commander and by the Regional Manager for Social Harmony, and his mother kept a small shrine dedicated to his press clippings and commendations that occupied most of the cramped sitting-room of her flat off Steeles Avenue.
No amount of policeman's devotion and skill availed him when it came to making his twelve-year-old get ready for school, though. The mound beneath the covers groaned and hissed. The mound — whose name was Ada Trouble Icaza de Arana-Goldberg — threw her covers off and sat bolt upright.
Is it testicle cancer? Pouty, pretty, sleepy and guile-less, and it made him realize that his daughter was becoming a woman, growing away from him. She was, and he was not ready for that.
He shook it off, patted his razor-burn and turned on his heel. He knew from experience that once roused, the munchkin would be scrounging the kitchen for whatever was handy before dashing out the door, and if he hurried, he'd have eggs and sausage on the table before she made her brief appearance. Otherwise he'd have to pry the sugar-cereal out of her hands — and she fought dirty. In his car, he prodded at his phone. He had her wiretapped, of course. He was a cop — every phone and every computer was an open book to him, so that this involved nothing more than dialing a number on his special copper's phone, entering her number and a PIN, and then listening as his daughter had truck with a criminal enterprise.
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