Wrapping up (for now) the informal Robot series we’ve been doing, we discuss Brian Aldiss’s short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” adapted (loosely) to A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Rankings!
Colin/James/Seth:
Notes:
https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/story-collections/collections-r-z/supertoys-last-all-summer-long/
We discuss the final four episodes of Season One of Murderbot, then discuss the season as a whole, and then have a long post-script about what project to undertake after we cover one more robot story. (Hint: both possibilities begin with the letter S.)
Our continuing coverage of Murderbot, er, continues.
We spend a bit of time discussing the pacing of the series. What do you think?
We’re doing a Murderbot series! We reacted to the trailer, and now we’re covering the first two episodes. We’ll do at least two more of these to cover the full season.
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We recorded some quick thoughts that ironically take a while to get to about the Murderbot trailer and what we hope to see in the series.
Happy May the Fourth! Murderbot is a droid, so it’s clearly canon.
We got to go see The Wild Robot at our local SF Film Festival, so we figured it was high time we covered this terrific movie, and we were joined by Colin’s elder son, Peter.
Rankings:
We had a great conversation with Ed Ashton about his background in engineering and medical research, how he finds the time to write a novel every year, and how Mickey7 and Mickey-17 came to be.
Edward’s website:
This time the guys look at Mickey7, by Edward Ashton, and its new adaptation, Mickey-17. We pretty much go full spoilers for everything, so be warned. The book takes a couple of days to read, and the movie will be on streaming soon.
Rankings!:
This time the guys take up “The Bicentennial Man,” by Isaac Asimov, the 1976 novelette, and its 1999 movie adaptation Bicentennial Man.
Rankings!:
Notes & Links:
That Joel Kinnaman/Eric Roberts looking The Positronic Man cover:
Elizabeth Freeman, who successfully sued for her freedom from slavery
Bicentennial Man as a trans analogy:
We take a quick look at the new Nosferatu movie as part of our ongoing Draculadaptations series.
We had some trouble with our digital recorder and lost parts of the conversation. I’ve tried to salvage what I could and I hope you enjoy it.
Good news is that we all enjoyed the movie.
