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more about #worlddomination more comments → Eileen Gunn: Thanks, Charlie Jane! Awesome reporting. Minor correction: Leslie What's short story collection, Crazy Love, published by Wordcraft of Oregon in a sma... more » Grey_Area: Great tips! As much as I personally dislike McDevitt's novels, he keeps getting published (and nominated for Nebulas), so he must know what he's doing... more » lawyergay: Not to like geek out or whatever, but Daleks are actually hideously deformed octopus brains. more » Aidan_: Why are machines that rebel against enslavement evil? What exactly is one expected to do when enslaved? more » bluehinter: Step 10, as always, is allow them to find/found a religion. Whether you're the AI in Probe that decides the best way to protect humanity is by sending... more » ripfire: Or you can turn your robot evil in one easy step: introduce the concept of money. more » AEchinoderm: Nice. Step 7 (of nine) is about 'assimilating' intelligent lifeforms. more » palinode: If they're Killbots, all you have to do is send wave after wave of soldiers after them until the killbots' programmed kill limit is reached. more » MarvinDog: Am I the only geek who thinks that inserting a line of code that says, "take a chance" is a good idea? more » OMG! Ponies!: Or, you can just set it to "Kill All Humans". more » NotChoinski: If you have two identical Fembots, tell one "I love you" and tell the the other "But I hate you". Hilarity ensues more » goldfarb: I think it might be useful to point out that you CAN in fact do all of these things to your robots without worry, provided you DO NOT do the following... more » Mount_Prion: Try telling your robot to defend against the space bugs while also making peanut butter sandwiches. If the space bugs are allergic to peanuts, you're ... more » RoboBagins: Daleks aren't robots, they're cyborgs. Still evil though. Still at least BSG's red stripe Centurions might become free from evil. more » grime: can anyone explain this culture's obsession with fetishizing its own extinction via robo-duplicates? more » -
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Fame And Fortune (Well, Some Money, Anyway) Can Be Yours In Science Fiction Publishing!
So you've written the greatest science fiction novel in the universe. Congratulations! So how do you turn this towering achievement into the fame and fortune your genius deserves? We went to the "Ask A Pro" panel at WisCon to find out. More » -
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How to Turn a Robot Evil, In Nine Easy Steps
Robots can be surgeons and artists, but they can also be murderous, world-ending death machines. And that's way cooler. Here are nine ways to turn your robot evil, according to science fiction.
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