I’m currently rebuilding the website as the old one got totally messed up when i was playing around with things (no idea what happened).
So i thought that while it was a total clusterfuck mess of SQL, i would take the opportunity to give it a whole new life and everything.
So if you go clicking on things you might find that very strange things happen. Don’t moan, i know a lot of things are broken, i’m working on it, it takes time.
I’ve got tons of old posts and pages from three websites that i’m working through and will be gradually posting all the stuff i want to keep on here while fixing all the broken things as i go through, one post, one page, at a time.
On top of doing all that, i will, of course, be continuing to add more new content and my latest posts will always appear directly below.
Or, if you prefer, you can also follow me on Twitter and Pinterest where i put a link to all new posts.
Enjoy
Kid Brother — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in Gold.
A single child family gets a sibling child-robot to hopefully tame down their unruly human child.
And things take an unexpected turn.
A good little story exploring the differences between feelings towards a real human child and a robot child, especially when one considers the behaviour of both towards their mother.
Next up is The Positronic Man.
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Cal — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in Gold.
An author has a robot that expresses a desire to become a writer. So the author gets several upgrades done to the robot in order for it to write stories.
With a good little twist at the end.
Next book is Kid Brother.
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Too Bad — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in Robot Visions.
A bit far fetched, with Isaac rewriting the Fantastic Voyage but using a robot to cure cancer instead.
Does the cure work?
Can it be done again?
Or is it all just
Read it and find out.
Moving on, next up it’s Cal.
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Robot Dreams — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in Robot Dreams.
This is a throw back story with Susan Calvin back at work. Not sure where it’s supposed to fit in the general timeline of things though, so i’ll just leave it where it is.
A robot is having strange dreams and Susan is called in to consider what to do about it.
Another good little story.
And the next story will be Too Bad.
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Robot Visions — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in Robot Visions.
A not too intelligent robot is sent into the future to see if time travel is possible, and it is instructed to report back what it finds: if it actually gets back.
So, spoiler, it does get back and tells the humans about it’s visions of the future.
You’ll have to read the story if you want to know more. It’s good though.
Next up is Robot Dreams.
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The Bicentennial Man — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in The Complete Robot, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories and Robot Visions.
This novella was later rewritten into a full novel, The Positronic Man, so you can either read both or just one of them.
Originally, U S Robots would sell robots to customers, but later changed to simply leasing them so they could maintain total control over what happened to their robots, recall them, modify them, replace whole model lines completely, etc.. But what ever happened to those that they sold and were never traded in for an upgrade?
This is the story of one such robot.
Another super good robot story.
Next up in the robot line is Robot Visions.
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The Art of Peace — Morihei Ueshiba
An interesting look at the life, teachings and philosophy of the creator of Aikido.
It gets all rather Zen in the later pages, it’s rather good food for thought.
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. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in The Complete Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories.
U.S. Robots are under threat and need to find a way to stay afloat. &npsp; So the George series is created to solve the problem.
George Nine and George Ten get to work and save the day, but at what cost?
A really good ending to this one.
Next up is The Bicentennial Man.
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Feminine Intuition — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in The Complete Robot, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories and Robot Visions.
Susan Calvin has finally retired and handed over to one of her best understudies, Clinton Madarian. Clinton decides that what the world needs is a girl robot, so he gets one built, Jane.
Clinton and Jane are travelling back to U.S. Robots with very important information when their air car gets destroyed by a meteor. But it seems that Jane told one other person and they then have to get Susan back into the office to find out who.
Another good story.
Next story is . . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him
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The Evitable Conflict — Isaac Asimov
You can find this in The Complete Robot, Robot Visions and I, Robot.
The Earth is now divided into regions, each with a “Machine” managing their economies. However, things aren’t playing out as one would expect and the Machines are all doing very odd things with their respective economies.
Stephen Byerley, who is now World Coordinator has invited, a now very old, Susan Calvin around for a fireside chat about what’s going wrong.
This is another good story giving us a premonition of the Zeroth Law that is to come in the future.
Next up is Feminine Intuition.
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. . .me thinks it’s a good time to re-read Asimov.
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