[ExI] What SF do you plan to read next?
Max More
max at maxmore.com
Sat Mar 27 19:21:41 UTC 2010
Thanks Bill. I seem to remember, though, that this was just one of
several parodies of SF writers by Sladek. Unfortunately, most of his
work is hard to find. I did read Tik-Tok, and also Roderick (now in a
new edition, I see).
Can't tell, from Wikipedia or Amazon, where "Broot Force" (and
possibly the other stories) appear. Amazon doesn't say what's inside
his collections.
Max
>On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Max More wrote:
> > QUESTION (to Damien, especially, but to other long-time SF readers):
> > Mentioning Asimov reminds me of a parody essay(?)/story(?) that I'm
> > pretty sure was written by John Sladek, in which various well know SF
> > authors names are amusingly skewed, so that, for instance, Isaac
> > Asimov becomes (something
> > like) I Click As I Move. Can anyone tell me what
> book/article/collection I'm
> > thinking of?
> >
> >
>
> >From Wikipedia:
>
>John Sladek's parodic short story "Broot Force" (supposedly written
>by "I-Click As-I-Move") concerns a group of Asimov-style robots
>whose actions are constrained by the "Three Laws of Robish", which
>are "coincidentally" identical to Asimov's laws. The robots in
>Sladek's story all manage to find logical loopholes in the Three
>Laws, usually with bloody results. Sladek later wrote a novel,
>Tik-Tok (1983), in which a robot discovers that his so-called
>"asimov circuits" are not restraining his behavior at all, making
>him in effect a sociopath; he comes to doubt whether "asimov
>circuits" are even technically possible, deciding that they are
>simply a pseudo-religious belief held by robots.
>
>
>
>BillK
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