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Uncanny Valley Theater: Rossum’s Universal Robots
Last night’s performance of Rossum’s Universal Robots was the Tin Man’s heart! Some executive nerds of our Science Fiction Reading Group snagged front row seats at San Francisco’s imaginative and intimate Cutting Ball Theater (277 Taylor St. 94102) for a … Continue reading
Uncanny Valley Digest: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Our Wednesday night Zamyatin discussion was the hammer and tongs! Like many thought-provoking Russian novels of its time, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1924 authoritarian dystopia, We, was first published in translation, outside of Russia. It is an epistolary novel of journal entries … Continue reading
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Uncanny Valley Digest: Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds
A spunky burglar is on the run for her life after helping her now-murdered father rob a corrupt ecological securities firm. Schroeder’s virtual worlds detective caper, set in the near future, is a young adult primer on the implications of … Continue reading
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