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12 Cards in this Set
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A Clean Escape |
-A story about moral accountability -Can we hold him responsible? -The story developed to conclude there is a nuclear holocaust -President is responsible yet looses his memory every 40 min |
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The Ship Who Sang |
-Romantic human connection in a nonhuman entity. -What makes something human? -Shell people (the minds of deformed people into machines with no biological body.) -relationship between Helva and Jennan (Brains and Brawn) -Dispute on a planet to save the population or let it burn in the heat wave.
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Call Me Joe |
-Individualism, Merging of minds, and psy control -K-2 glass tube allows connection between Anglesey and Joe (centaur figure on Jupiter) -Equipment failures becoming more common. -Cornelius brought to solve problems -Crippled Anglesey merges with Joe. |
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All you Zombies |
-Time travel and one character -An older man (himself from the future) impregnates his younger self -Unmarried mother gives birth then has sex change. -lives as a man and begins writing. -Bartender takes the unmarried mother to the back and nets over them to time travel. The unmarried mother impregnates a woman (himself) and the bartender takes the baby back to 1945 and leaves it in an orphanage. |
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Dark They were and Yellow Eyed |
-Home and the concept and adaptability. -Earthling Bittering family, goes to Mars but Father Harry realizes he doesn't like it and wants to go back, but a nuclear holocaust has stranded them on Mars. -Harry notices subtle changes (plants, cows, people) and starts eating only frozen earth food. -Harry tries to build a rocket and his family soon becomes very dark skinned, tall, thin, and golden-eyed. -Harry begins to stop resisting the change wanting to move to the villas -Harry and his wife notice their old homes and remarks how the "Earth people's" houses are not built sensibly. -New astronauts come and the ending is a foreboding feeling that what happened to the Bitterings would soon happen to these new colonists
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Robbie |
-Connection between man and machine - A mute RB series robot, nicknamed Robbie, is owned by the Weston family as a nursemaid for their daughter, Gloria -Mother is follower of the populance and when anti-robot setiment grew she wanted Robbie out, and Robbie is returned to the factory. -Gloria ceases to enjoy life. -They go to NY to get Gloria's mind off of Robbie and the dad feels they should go the factory where they see Robbie. -When Robbie saves Gloria's life, an unplanned part of the reunion, Mrs. Weston finally agrees that he might not be a soulless monster, and gives in. |
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Robot Dreams |
-Extent of Robotics and what should be allowed -Dr. Calvin, Dr. Rash and LVX-1 are in a room. -LVX-1 who has a fractal brain (because of Dr. Linda Rash) has a dream -In the dream, all robots were being led by a human in revolt, where the robots were seeking equality rather than servitude. -"but in my dream..." -"let my people go" it was Elvex leading the mass -Calvin destroys the robot |
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A Work of Art |
-About the future of music and the creative process -Mind Sculpting ( Human personalities from history are re-created and placed in bodies) -Drs. Kris and Seirds, re-create the mind of Richard Strauss and place it in a body encouraging him to recreate music. -He creates and opera but realizes he had used all of it before -Applause comes but it is for the mind sculptors "the 'Strauss' [they] had created was as empty of genius as a hollow gourd."
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Scarecrow's Boy |
Morality and ethics of Robots. -Robot scarecrow meets a boy after the boys father was killed. -robot holds it up and shows a slight ego and malevolence -polic show up so they go to lake and car hovers over it. -patrol boat shows up and the scarecrows owner is passed out drunk. -Scarecrow kills the owner because he's not a good man anymore. -Car takes off, police surround them and the scarecrow says the kid is seeking political asylum.
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Pump Six |
-Toxic Futurism, slowly declining society. Trogs and Effy -Everyone is dumb and narrator is one of the only one who knows how the sewage pumps work. -Violent undertones and no reference to law and order. Talk with woman at library at Columbia |
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Inconstant Moon |
-Stan and Leslie decide to spend last night together. -The moon gets brighter and it is realized there has been a deadly solar flare.
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Paradise Charted |
Algis Burdys |
