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November, 2008

Nov 29

2008

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We are the robots

Some authors spend their careers skip­ping from one theme to another. Others, like Richard Evans, con­cen­trate on one. His first novel, called Machine Nation, was pub­lished in 2002, and ima­gined a near future in which the philo­soph­ical ques­tions sur­round­ing robotic life are begin­ning to press. In sub­sequent robot books — Robophobia and Exilium — he has con­tin­ued to invest­ig­ate these issues within a thriller frame­work.
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Nov 07

2008

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You mean they haven’t even heard of James Bond?

Remember when, as a child, you’d sud­denly see things from a new per­spect­ive? I must have been about nine, or per­haps eight, when it struck me that there were people in the world who had not heard of James Bond. That thought held me in a tighter grip than the notion that some people had no access to drink­ing water, or the Bible…but no James Bond? What kind of alien exist­ence would that be?
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