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Cory Doctorow's 'I, Robot' Posted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-like-that-sort-of-thing dept.

maxentius writes "A bunch of new stuff has been posted to The Infinite Matrix , reports editor Eileen Gunn, including a new 15,000- word short story from Cory Doctorow entitled 'I, Robot.' Other new additions include material from Howard Waldrop and Patrick O'Leary."

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  1. The title by MadChicken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I realize it's asking a lot, but if people would either READ the ARTICLE or scroll way way to the bottom, they'd see this:

    About this story, Cory says, "Last spring, in the wake of Ray Bradbury pitching a tantrum over Michael Moore appropriating the title of 'Fahrenheit 451' to make Fahrenheit 9/11, 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."

    Yes, the title is on purpose. Of course if people did that, there would be no discussions here, would there?

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  2. Oh god, not again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg, Police Detective Third Grade, United North American Trading Sphere, Third District, Fourth Prefecture, Second Division (Parkdale) had had many adventures in his distinguished career, running crooks to ground with an unbeatable combination of instinct and unstinting devotion to duty.

    This man's writing is so amazingly stilted even reading the first paragraph makes me cringe in horror. For the love of my life, I can't understand the Slashdot infatuation with him. Everything I've ever seen by him has been awful even by pulp SF standards.