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odditycollector) wrote2004-05-22 05:53 pm
odditycollector) wrote2004-05-22 05:53 pm
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Sex With Robots Is More Common Than People Think.
This whole not having easily accessible internet has got me doing schoolwork looking for non-electronic forms of entertainment. Yesterday, I ended up digging out one of my old sci-fi books - The Robots of Dawn by Asimov - and, you know, I found it *way* more entertaining than I remember. I think the last time I read it, when I was about seven, I wasn't up to the task of interpreting such subtle relationship cues such as:
[After Baley eventually stopsgroping *hugging* Daneel]
Daneel bowed gravely in acknowledgment. "Dr. Fastolfe also felt that the meeting would give me" - the robot paused - "appropriate sensations."
"Pleasure, you mean, Daneel."
"Since I am permitted to use the term, yes."
Or,
Baley was suddenly aware that the mattress had been yielding slowly under him until it now half-enfolded his hips. He rose suddenly and said, "Is there any way of warming the room, Daneel?"
"It will feel warmer when you are under the cover with the light out, Partner Elijah."
"Ah." He looked about suspiciously. "Would you put the light out, Daneel, and remain in the room when you have done so?"
Or,
Vasilia looked at Daneel with bitter curiosity. "Partner Elijah? Is that what you call him?"
"Yes, Dr. Vasilia. My choice in this matter - the Earthman over you - arises not only out of Dr. Fastolfe's instructions, but because the Earthman and I are partners in this investigation and because-" Daneel paused as though puzzled by what he was about to say, and then said it anyway, "-we are friends."
Vasilia said, "Friends? An Earthman and a humaniform robot? Well, there is a match. Neither quite human."
Baley said, sharply, "Nevertheless bound by friendship. Do not, for your own sake, test the force of our-" Now it was he who paused and, as though to his own surprise, completed the sentence impossibly, "-love."
Or,
Again, Baley found himself crammed into the front seat between the two robots. He welcomed Daneel particularly, with his humanlike body warmth. Although, Griskard's textilelike outermost layer was insulating and not as cold to the touch as bare metal would have been, he was the less attractive of the two (in Baley's current chilly state).
Balet caught himself on the verge of putting an arm around Daneel's shoulder, with the intention of finding comfort by drawing him even closer. He brought his arm down to his lap in confusion.
Really, it makes the fact that Baley spends most of the book asking various people if they consider it socially acceptable to do the naughty with a robot subject to more than one explanation.
[After Baley eventually stops
Daneel bowed gravely in acknowledgment. "Dr. Fastolfe also felt that the meeting would give me" - the robot paused - "appropriate sensations."
"Pleasure, you mean, Daneel."
"Since I am permitted to use the term, yes."
Or,
Baley was suddenly aware that the mattress had been yielding slowly under him until it now half-enfolded his hips. He rose suddenly and said, "Is there any way of warming the room, Daneel?"
"It will feel warmer when you are under the cover with the light out, Partner Elijah."
"Ah." He looked about suspiciously. "Would you put the light out, Daneel, and remain in the room when you have done so?"
Or,
Vasilia looked at Daneel with bitter curiosity. "Partner Elijah? Is that what you call him?"
"Yes, Dr. Vasilia. My choice in this matter - the Earthman over you - arises not only out of Dr. Fastolfe's instructions, but because the Earthman and I are partners in this investigation and because-" Daneel paused as though puzzled by what he was about to say, and then said it anyway, "-we are friends."
Vasilia said, "Friends? An Earthman and a humaniform robot? Well, there is a match. Neither quite human."
Baley said, sharply, "Nevertheless bound by friendship. Do not, for your own sake, test the force of our-" Now it was he who paused and, as though to his own surprise, completed the sentence impossibly, "-love."
Or,
Again, Baley found himself crammed into the front seat between the two robots. He welcomed Daneel particularly, with his humanlike body warmth. Although, Griskard's textilelike outermost layer was insulating and not as cold to the touch as bare metal would have been, he was the less attractive of the two (in Baley's current chilly state).
Balet caught himself on the verge of putting an arm around Daneel's shoulder, with the intention of finding comfort by drawing him even closer. He brought his arm down to his lap in confusion.
Really, it makes the fact that Baley spends most of the book asking various people if they consider it socially acceptable to do the naughty with a robot subject to more than one explanation.