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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. Re:IP by OzRoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except that the original "I, Robot" short story was not written by Asimov, but by a guy named Eando Binder in 1939.

  2. Re:IP by AmoHongos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Except that Eando Binder wasn't just one guy, but the pen name for Earl and Otto Binder.

  3. Re:Oh god, not again by Sandor+at+the+Zoo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Everything I've ever seen by him has been awful even by pulp SF standards.

    Pro: Cory's stories (heh, a rhyme!) nail geekdom. My favorite is from 0wnz0red, in which the main character's CVS submit permissions are yanked. It's funny, for geeks.

    Con: Every main character in every one of Cory's stories that I've read is a whiny SOB. In "I, Robot", the main character only cries once, which means that Cory's getting better.

    Seriously, I hate everyone one of Cory's main characters. They're either whiny put-upon crybabies, or they're taken advantage of by their best friends/wives/other, or usually both. To me, that's the one thing keeping me from really liking Cory's writing. Yeah, the prose needs work, but that will get better with practice. Just stop making charactes that I hate reading about!