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I Robot

  • Adam Keller

    Like Tears in Rain

    In a universe slowly sinking into entropy, writing can take the disordered pieces of our experience and fit their edges together into something organized. If the work of a writer is to tease out meaning from the tangled mess of life, many of…

  • Roxie Pell

    Carving the Uncanny Valley

    Any Luddite with half a brain has already begun stockpiling nonperishables for the inevitable moment the robots rise up against us. Over at the Ploughshares blog, Joelle Renstrom recounts how writers were awakened to the threat of artificial intelligence: A…

  • The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi
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    Justin Phillip Reed

    The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi

    Smith’s characters act as witnesses for the rehabilitated offender, the white-supremacist nation-state.

  • P.E. Garcia

    I, Twitterbot

    At the New York Review of Books, James Gleick says that the future promised in novels like I, Robot is already here—in the form of Twitterbots.