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MartiniOCP
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 7:25 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi to all! I'm new to this page and my favourite area of research is everything concerning AIs or cybernetic beings struggling with hypocritical humanity. I'm an absolute devotee of Robocop and, though on the thought of this movie most people react sarcastically I personally find it deep, sad and absolutely fantastic. Anyhows, lack of concern about the new life that's being created next to our own is what moves me most. Enough for a start |)
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 7:33 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I didn't know there was supposed to be anything wrong with the movie Robocop. I liked it well enough. Although, the Cybermen are my favourite cybernetic beings.

Hello, MartiniOCP! Welcome to SFReader.

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 9:41 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 10:44 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome to the boards!
I enjoyed Robocop.  I think more people would see it in the sad, deep sense that you do if a bit more time had been spent exploring those themes in the story.  But Paul Verhoeven tends to focus more on action, I've noticed.  Of course, I could also be completely wrong.  Ang Lee tried to focus on the sad parts of the Incredible Hulk, and most would agree that it didn't work out so well.  So I've just gone in a big circle.  :-)
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 1:45 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome!

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"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
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"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 2:07 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi, welcome to the forum. What strikes me as strange these days is seeing the Robocop lecture on the History Channel. :-)

Still a great movie. I'd buy THAT for a dollar!


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Mike Lynch
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 6:59 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome.

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  		   Posted 5/26/2008 11:57 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome! Great to have you aboard.

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  		   Posted 5/27/2008 9:37 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thank you for your cooperation--er, your participation on SFReader.

Welcome!

It's not really about cyborg-cyborgs, but Donna Haraway wrote an interesting essay called "A Cyborg Manifesto". I think the central thrust is that we're all composites of self-chose communities, but I suggest you check it out if you're able to read poststructuralist feminist theory.
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  		   Posted 6/4/2008 5:10 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I watched Robocop the other night. I love it. It is about recapturing humanity as much as blowing stuff up. :)

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  		   Posted 6/6/2008 8:29 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome. Have fun. This is a really friendly community.

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  		   Posted 6/7/2008 5:23 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
MartiniOCP said...
Hi to all! I'm new to this page and my favourite area of research is everything concerning AIs or cybernetic beings struggling with hypocritical humanity. I'm an absolute devotee of Robocop and, though on the thought of this movie most people react sarcastically I personally find it deep, sad and absolutely fantastic. Anyhows, lack of concern about the new life that's being created next to our own is what moves me most. Enough for a start |)
G'day Martin
 
It's nothing like Robocop but you might like Richard Morgan's Aletered Carbon series, and his new novel Dark Man. Very Bladerunner, very cyberpunk. Action and adventure all the way.
It explores the idea of artificailly created people or people whose consiousness is transferred between one body and another.
 
You might also like the novel Solo. By Robert Mason. There are two books in the series that I know off. About a self aware robot designed for the military who doesn't like the tasks he's been created for.
 
There is also a free download on the forum that I posted up called Deadstock...about bio-engineering gone horribly wrong. Excellent story.
 
Cheers: Jaq.
 
 
 

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Charles Gramlich
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  		   Posted 6/7/2008 1:21 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome. My favorite cybernetic being is probaly Data. I know the most about him. I enjoyed Robocop and could have considered it a very fine movie if they hadn't used the "F word" about 1000 times. If they'd clean that up I'd enjoy it more.

Charles Gramlich
 

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  		   Posted 6/12/2008 10:39 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome, welcome!

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press).  His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

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  		   Posted 6/13/2008 12:35 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome!

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  		   Posted 6/27/2008 3:56 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The cussing did not bother me in the least. I did pick up on the regaining of humanity part of the movie and thought it was rather sad. Since that was done mostly in subtle close ups, it did not communicate as well as it might have. I wonder if a lot of the characterization ended up on the cutting room floor.

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