I CAN HAS ROBOTS?
Mar. 17th, 2009 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
By order of Sir Arthur C Clarke
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Which is fascinating because:
1. The last time I filled out this meme, I was declared to be Stanislaw Lem, who I’d never read, but have since and now like.
2. Just this evening, I stopped at Page One on the way home and, on a whim, because it was there, I bought a copy of The Gods Themselves. Uncanny!
FUN FACT: I haven’t read very much Asimov – just two Robot books (I, Robot and The Caves Of Steel). I enjoyed both, but typically the only other books I ever see on the shelves here are the Foundation books, which don’t really interest me. I’m not a huge fan of epic space operas as a rule. However, if any of you want to make a case for the Foundation series, go right ahead.
Anyway, not a bad result, although my current attempts to pound out science fiction bear about as much resemblance to Asimov as the average Dear Penthouse collection. That said, I do have a file full of notes for a story involving a rogue Pentagon concubine droid reprogrammed with the Shaw Brothers library and the first four Black Sabbath albums ...
And at least I get some epic sideburns.
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space,
This is dF
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Which is fascinating because:
1. The last time I filled out this meme, I was declared to be Stanislaw Lem, who I’d never read, but have since and now like.
2. Just this evening, I stopped at Page One on the way home and, on a whim, because it was there, I bought a copy of The Gods Themselves. Uncanny!
FUN FACT: I haven’t read very much Asimov – just two Robot books (I, Robot and The Caves Of Steel). I enjoyed both, but typically the only other books I ever see on the shelves here are the Foundation books, which don’t really interest me. I’m not a huge fan of epic space operas as a rule. However, if any of you want to make a case for the Foundation series, go right ahead.
Anyway, not a bad result, although my current attempts to pound out science fiction bear about as much resemblance to Asimov as the average Dear Penthouse collection. That said, I do have a file full of notes for a story involving a rogue Pentagon concubine droid reprogrammed with the Shaw Brothers library and the first four Black Sabbath albums ...
And at least I get some epic sideburns.
Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space,
This is dF
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on 2009-03-16 07:29 pm (UTC)Which science fiction writer are you? (http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html)
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on 2009-03-17 12:18 am (UTC)Apparently I'm Gregory Benford.
I don't recall reading any of his stuff, but I must have at some point.
I had a hard time answering the questions, I wanted to select multiple answers on most of them.