odditycollector: I'll make it so you've been that from the beginning of time to now and you'll never ever know if you were anything else (Balloon)
2004-05-22 05:53 pm

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:

My bed is cold... )

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.