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Books and Science Fiction I Will Be Reading

There are so many terrific books about robots and cyborgs out there, but those listed on the sidebar are the ones I personally chose to read for my particular sci-fi novels and novelettes I will be writing.  I can't read every single book about robots and cybernetics, so I picked books I am interested in that I know I will spend some time reading.  Daniel Dinello's Technophbia! is an absolute must-read for me because I want to know the history of robots in science fiction, and through the process get curious as to how robots function.  I am also interested in robots and love, and what love can mean, or do to them, so that is why I also picked David Levy's Love + Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships.

I realize I have a lot of readings/fiction from Isaac Asimov, but he is the reason I love to read about robots and write about robots and androids.  I have to read from the master :D

Movies and Anime I Will Be Viewing

The Japanese anime I view is for entertainment within the subjects of my fascination for this blog [Cybernetic Dreams].  I don't watch them one after another; usually I watch one or two episodes at a time.  Sometime after watching the episodes, I start reflecting on the events in the episode and it brings up thoughts and ideas about robots or cyborgs that I usually don't think about, that I want to explore later.  This is especially true for Android Kikader: The Animation and Cyborg 009.  It happens without me wanting to, but I accept it nonetheless.

As for the movies WALL-E and Robots (which I will see later), I watch that for pure enjoyment.  Again, they are related to the subject of robots and I don't really plan to make it a whole deal analyzing things.  They are just nice to enjoy without thinking deep, heavy thoughts.

I, Robot, however, is a film that does make me think on a deeper level.  It inspires me to think about Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and think deeper about them than the literal meaning.  For some reason I feel like I have to read between the lines when it comes to rules for robots like those, especially if they are supposed to be hardwired into them.