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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. Catchy Title... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next week, read the first installment of Cory's brand new fantasy epic, "The Lord Of The Rings"

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  2. GPL'd story? by Aneurysm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it an official fork of the Asimov book?

  3. Re:cool robot scultpture by iapetus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can someone summarize what this story is about?

    Robots.

    You're welcome.

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  4. Mr Doctorow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone called SCO just called. They said something about patenting your story and then threatening to sue everyone who reads Isaac Asimov, I don't know.

  5. 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.

  6. The reason for the I, Robot title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    From his interview at Locus magazine:
    http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/01Doctorow.htm l

    "I gave up short story writing for a while when I started writing novels (which I think every writer does), but I've started doing it again. What spurred me to it was Bradbury going crazy about Fahrenheit 9/11, saying Michael Moore was a crook for having stolen his title. For a champion of free expression, in the original Fahrenheit 451, to assert that the person who comes up with the meme has the right to control the condition as to who can riff on that meme is not just ironic, it's ludicrous! So I started writing a whole batch of new stories that had the same titles as famous science fiction. I've finished an 'Anda's Game' and an 'I, Robot' and my next one might be a 'Jeffty Is Five'. Ellison's original 'Jeffty' is an anti-technological story -- Harlan's an antitechnological guy. He told us at Clarion that we should get offline and stop screwing around (the best advice I ever ignored). I'm just going to play with that for a while and see how it goes. Let a thousand 'Nightfall's bloom!"