The R-Word

[greygirlbeast]

Neil tweeted about this, then Spooky pointed me to it. Brilliant. Lately, I am utterly amazed at the wonderfulness of so many Kickstarter projects...like this one: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Robotic Edition.

(I'd have posted the video, but something about the embed code hates LiveJournal.)

Comments

[nokomis1339.livejournal.com]

This just made my night!

~L~

The Adventures of Sarah Crowe

[jessamyg.livejournal.com]

The video is amazing and wonderful and so close to what certain people would love to get away with.

Maybe you should do this with your books? Replace all references to gender and sexuality of "other" persuasions with robot? I'm sure the people fooled into reading your books by the covers will find this in no way condescending and offensive. Give them what they want, screw art and grab at the easy money. It might work - "I'd honestly never thought of myself as much of a deviant, beyond the way that my upbringing had trained me to view my robotism, of course."

Shudder.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Ah, in the spirit of the Monty Python line "They should attack things like that. With satire."

[chiropteryx.livejournal.com]

This also made my night (which sure needed it - do NOT ever try and fix itunes 2330 error with only one hand late at night if sanity is valuable), and restored a smidgen of my faith in humanity, no mean feat these days. And with things like RoboThespian now a reality, the possibilities are endless.
I'm kind of with jessamyg on this one - you seldom see even 'anonymous' reviewing a book with "I don't want to read about robots. I know they exist, some of my best friends are robots, but why does the main character have to just shove her dirty robotism in our faces all the time!"