ratlaw
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« on: July 29, 2012, 06:27:39 am » |
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Anyone know a good book that has A.I. type of robot in it. A good one though.
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Dr Fidelius
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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2012, 01:16:11 pm » |
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What is a "A.I. type" robot? As in the movie of that title, or as a generally Artificially Intelligent metal person as opposed to a programmed automaton?
What books have you read already, and how did they fall short of your expectations?
Have you read "Android Karenina?' My daughter gifted me with a copy at Christmas last, but it hasn't made its way up to the top of any of my "To Be Read" stacks yet.
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Atterton
Master Tinkerer
Only The Shadow knows
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2012, 01:23:18 pm » |
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The book Perdido Street Station features a mechanical robot that becomes self aware after a virus infection.
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The Corsair
Defective Inspector
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Zeppelin Admiral
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Your Move
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2012, 01:37:50 pm » |
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The Mortal Engines quartet features a few automatons (and they do become quite central to the story, so don't be put out by it at the start)
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I think I should also mention I had a dream about this game, only Bailey was a woman...
I assure you, that incident in Singapore was all a misunderstanding. |
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Arkwright
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2012, 09:41:12 pm » |
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If you can wait until September, the first book of the The Autmoata Wars comes out.
If you are looking for A.I. type robots - then its the book for you.
TTFN
Arkwright
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Gaijin_King
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2012, 11:24:28 pm » |
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K.W. Jeter's Infernal Devices involves robots. Not sure if that's what you're looking for.
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Dman
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Angus MacKay Gentleman of Adventure
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2012, 05:23:47 pm » |
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I can't remember the authors name, but there is a "series" (it's into it's second book, just released) called A Clock =work Empire (or it could be just Clockwork Empire), it has lot's of automatons (my favorite being "Click" the mechanical cat, who is like a feline multi-tool). It is really good and has a peculiar virus called the Clockwork Plague which makes it's victims in to either deranged super geniuses or pain wracked "zombies", but all in all it's a good solid frolicking read!
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2012, 10:47:39 pm » |
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Bwahahaha! They called me mad! MAD! But with my cross-dimensional time-fez I'll show them!!!!! hehehehe!!
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2012, 11:08:46 pm » |
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You can read my autobiography once I'm finished writing it. How fluent are you in machine code?
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Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
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Gaijin_King
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« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2012, 04:24:11 am » |
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I'm currently reading Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device. In it, the flying carpet is a mechanical device and the genie is a British-speaking automaton in Arabia.
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MechanicalMouse
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2012, 03:55:11 pm » |
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You can read my autobiography once I'm finished writing it. How fluent are you in machine code?
Big endian or little? |
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oldskoolpunk
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2012, 06:03:12 pm » |
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Steampunk shouldn't have AI or robots. You just can't do that with gears.
I've used mechanical desk calculators and owned several. I've used an IBM electromechanical tabulator and a long-carriage programmable accounting machine. I've been to Bletchly Park and seen the crypto bombe. I've been to the Computer Museum in Mountain View and seen the replica Difference Engine and printer. I've been to the museum in Neuchâtel to see the Jaquet-Droz automata in action. (They only run them one day per month). I've been to HMS Belfast in London to see the analog gun computer, and I once found the analog gun computer for a battleship in a surplus store. I've read through the design documents for the original Panama Canal lock controls and used a simulator for relay-logic railroad interlocking. I overhaul old teletype machines for fun.
Those represent the upper limits of what you can do without electronics. There's a hard limit there, and while one might stretch it a bit for steampunk purposes, it's eight orders of magnitude below a desktop PC.
Now there are computational devices that would not have been totally out of reach in the steampunk era. "E-mail", for example. One could have had a system that automatically forwarded and switched messages from stock-ticker like machines by 1880, if somebody had put enough money into the problem. (Such systems were built in the 1930s and 1940s, for telegram switching). A credit card system with appropriate terminals. (The first systems for automated finance were race-track totalizators, first installed in 1933 by the American Totalizator Company). Remote reservations for railroads. (Pennsylvania Railroad, 1952, surprisingly late). Basic autopilots (Sperry, 1912).
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Dr Fidelius
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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2012, 12:34:55 am » |
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Tik-Tok was a mechanical robot, run on a clockwork mechanism, who needed to have his thinking, speech and motion devices wound up separately. Oz had many proto-Steampunk concepts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_%28Oz%29 |
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oldskoolpunk
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« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2012, 03:57:41 am » |
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Oz had many proto-Steampunk concepts. Click your heels together three times. Oz is a story with magic and witches. |
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Dr Fidelius
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« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2012, 12:19:46 pm » |
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Oz had many proto-Steampunk concepts. Click your heels together three times. Oz is a story with magic and witches. ... and the most popular trope in modern Steampunk seems to be zombies. So? (Among the meat-space Steampunks I know are several Wiccans, as well.) |
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