So I asked writers to create stories of robots and rebellion.Īnd no, with one or two possible exceptions, I can’t think of any SF writers who might be robots, and I doubt they’d want to confess if they were.ĭang it. It was a pretty obvious allegory for the time and I thought (and still think) that it’s an idea that resonates with the time we’re living in really deeply. It also involves a robot uprising that overthrew the human race. Karl Capek’s play, RUR, was about worker’s rights and treating people with dignity and decency. The idea for the book itself came when I realized that it has been a hundred years since they first performed the play where the term “robot” was coined. Made To Order: Robots And Revolution is anthology of all-new, previously unpublished short stories. But is there more to it than that? Like, are all the stories new? Or really short? Were they all written by people you suspect may secretly be robots and these are actually their subconscious way of confessing? Made To Order i s a collection of short stories about robots. For instance, in the following email interview with editor Jonathan Strahan, he discusses Made To Order: Robots And Revolution ( paperback, Kindle), an anthology of sci-fi short stories in which robots - get this! - rebel against their human masters. As we’ve seen in The Matrix and Terminator movies, making slaves out of robots always ends well for us humans.
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