ASFR: New story: Still Life: Ellie (M/F, rom, cons, 1st, fantasy, magic, large)
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story. But if you like my storytelling in general, you can read "Still
Life: Ellie" on either Stories OnLine, or my own site.
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Seedy
<URL:mailto:DB_S...@att.net> wrote:
> You won't find my latest story here, since technically it's not a robot
> story. But if you like my storytelling in general, you can read "Still
> Life: Ellie" on either Stories OnLine, or my own site.
Out of curiousity, I read this on your site.
Looks as though it is On Topic, as now-living shop manikins, and
Galatea (sp?) type magical animations would definately seem to
fall within the charter.
If stories about Gorgons, and magical wind-up dolls, are On
Topic, which they seem to have been, this would be as well.
Mind you, that looks like the sort of body modification that
would work best with personal anti grav units...
Now, I want to consider ideas for a shapeshifting robot,
preferably without using something like T1000 liquid metal
nanotech (not sure what sort of tech would be best, and I'm not
that happy with ST holodeck effects, either), and consider issues
like it's personal identity, and how it relates to people...
Maybe a robot based on some sort of biotech, like a highly
programmable (including growing structural elements- wood?, sense
organs, and changing surface colour and texture?) slime mold???
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"face dancers".
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Seedy
<URL:mailto:DB_S...@att.net> wrote:
> Elf Sternberg has written about some shapeshifting robots. He calls them
> "face dancers".
Think I've seen some (probably not all) of these.
I suppose "face dancers" is after Frank Herbert's "Dune" novels,
as I don't think I saw it used anywhere in SF before that, though
I suppose Herbert might have got it from somewhere else.
His robots seemed to only have limited shapeshifting, though it
seemed pretty impressive how thorough they were; his stories were
the first place I recall reference to a "plume" (though I don't
know cyberpunk that well, so I suppose it might have appeared
somewhere in that).
Still, I think the idea of shapeshifting robots is interesting...
0mn1vore
(in message <lNGdnTxlWdZ...@comcast.com>):
> Elf Sternberg has written about some shapeshifting robots. He calls them
> "face dancers".
>
Hmm, first word that came to me was; `spies'. ;-)
But that's another story, and I haven't finished one yet [those
were chapters... Well okay, one was almost a story].
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> His robots seemed to only have limited shapeshifting, though it
> seemed pretty impressive how thorough they were; his stories were
> the first place I recall reference to a "plume" (though I don't
> know cyberpunk that well, so I suppose it might have appeared
> somewhere in that).
"Plume" is actually a term from modern intelligence; it refers
to the chemical traces a person leaves behind that might be trackable.
I just took that and extended it as far I possibly could; a person is
just more than sight and sound-- taste and smell matter too, when you're
writing smut.
Elf
Seedy
<URL:mailto:e...@drizzle.com> wrote:
> Seedy <C...@romsys.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > His robots seemed to only have limited shapeshifting, though it
> > seemed pretty impressive how thorough they were; his stories were
> > the first place I recall reference to a "plume" (though I don't
> > know cyberpunk that well, so I suppose it might have appeared
> > somewhere in that).
>
> "Plume" is actually a term from modern intelligence; it refers
> to the chemical traces a person leaves behind that might be trackable.
Now that is interesting! I must look into this further.
> I just took that and extended it as far I possibly could; a person is
> just more than sight and sound-- taste and smell matter too, when you're
> writing smut.
It's a good idea to think about all the senses, in all sorts of
writing! [grin]
I suppose weak electro-magnetic traces might need to be
considered as well, which might be pretty difficult to fake.
Naturally lost skin flakes might present a problem. Particularly
if people are doing DNA analyses on them.
> Elf
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