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'''Doctorow, Cory. "I, Row-Boat."''' ''Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales'', Issue #1, Fall, 2006. Collected ''Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present''. Running Press, 2007. Reprinted '' The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007)''. Jonathan Strahan, editor. Night Shade Books, 2007. For other reprints see Internet Speculative Fiction Database at following link.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?494121] | '''Doctorow, Cory. "I, Row-Boat."''' ''Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales'', Issue #1, Fall, 2006. Collected ''Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present''. Running Press, 2007. Reprinted '' The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007)''. Jonathan Strahan, editor. Night Shade Books, 2007. For other reprints see Internet Speculative Fiction Database at following link.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?494121] | ||
| − | Novelette, described by the author: "I, Row-Boat” is a riff on my Hugo-nominated story I, Robot, and it concerns the theological wars between an Asimov-cultist AI boat and an uplifted coral-reef." | + | Novelette, described by the author: "I, Row-Boat” is a riff on my Hugo-nominated story I, Robot,[https://craphound.com/stories/2005/02/07/i-robot/] and it concerns the theological wars between an Asimov-cultist AI boat and an uplifted coral-reef." |
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Latest revision as of 20:28, 14 June 2021
Doctorow, Cory. "I, Row-Boat." Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #1, Fall, 2006. Collected Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. Running Press, 2007. Reprinted The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007). Jonathan Strahan, editor. Night Shade Books, 2007. For other reprints see Internet Speculative Fiction Database at following link.[1]
Novelette, described by the author: "I, Row-Boat” is a riff on my Hugo-nominated story I, Robot,[2] and it concerns the theological wars between an Asimov-cultist AI boat and an uplifted coral-reef."
The reef made a tremendous grinding noise. “Yaah!” it said. “Get lost. Sovereign territory!”
“All those fish,” the woman said. Robbie had to stop himself from thinking of her as Janet. [...]
“Parrotfish,” Robbie said. “They eat coral. I don’t think they taste very good.”
The woman hugged herself. “Are you sentient?” she asked.
“Yes,” Robbie said. “And at your service, Asimov be blessed.” His cameras spotted her eyes rolling, and that stung. He tried to keep his thoughts pious, though. The point of Asimovism wasn’t to inspire gratitude in humans, it was to give purpose to the long, long life.[3]
It appears to be comic-Satire.
RDE, finishing, 14Jun21
