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By: Bugsnax’s twofold queerness

Bugsnax’s twofold queerness — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:34:09 +0000

[…] A particularly blatant example of twofold queerness. Source: O Human Star […]

By: Mabel

Mabel — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:19:08 +0000

Man. Whew. I never realized just how much trans symbolism this story had. Idk if I was reading with blinders on before or what but this? It doesn’t get much more blunt than what Sulla says right here.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:38:02 +0000

Really like the subtextual parallels here.

By: jesse

jesse — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 05:02:04 +0000

<3 whats this? <3 <3 trans narratives in my spec fic? <3 <3 i must be dreaming <3

By: Space-aged

Space-aged — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:24:51 +0000

In reply to Keith. What's wrong with her nose?

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:19:34 +0000

She can look like anything she wants…and she kept THAT nose? Yikes!

Great story so far, though! :)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:10:56 +0000

FYI there’s a problem in the website’s code. When I go to “ohumanstar.com” it just takes me to an older page, and I can’t click “next.”

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:00:22 +0000

In reply to ladyjeran.

Yeah… but if you can copy a mind from human to robot, surely you can copy it from a robot to a newer model. Sulla’s had her chassis changed several times, right?
…oh god that could mean immortality is only possible for robots with a certain amount of wealth. Either that or you would have to sell your old body for scrap to afford a new one. DYSTOPIA AHOY!

By: Leckford

Leckford — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:58:18 +0000

If you think robots are automatically immortal, I invite you to have a conversation with my ten-year-old PowerBook :-)

No reason for machines to aspire to look human of course. There are lots of options open to them. I guess Sully acquired the taste for a humanlike chassis from Brendan.

By: ladyjeran

ladyjeran — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:01:29 +0000

In reply to miracle2415.

I don’t think you have to worry about the immortality at the moment, or even in the foreseeable future. How long does your car last before something breaks on it? Or your phone before a newer model comes out? How bout your computer? If capitalism has it’s way in the future, planned obsolescence will shorten the life-span of everything to a little more than a month.

As for emotions and replacements, I’d worry more about clones than robots. We’re further with that tech than getting a realistic robot that can pass a Turing test.