What, like, he gives birth to them? Or AIs start as 'infants' and are raised like human babies to make them 'people' with proper social adjustments? Are AIs citizens?
Perhaps Howard created Tony in some dramatically weird clone-y modified way way, and everyone was WTF no and he was 'suck it this is my weird son now' and then just when society had gotten used to Tony having tentacles and such he cyborged himself and the whole thing started up again and now he's doing it again with robo-babies Tony not everything should be allowed to vote. Pushing the boundaries of what human means! And and and feel free to tell me not to leap on your story bits and claw frantically at them, I know some people don't like it and I won't mind. I just seem to be babbly today. :)
What kinds do you like? My hands-down favourite is the Culture; I also love the Vorkosigan series. There was an ace space-hospital series that was fantastic for giving a real sense of galatic scale - instead of doing medicine by species names, they had to classify species with a four-letter code, depending on a number of physical qualities, so you'd have an idea of what you were dealing with, and the hospital (a giant space section) had all kinds of bits with different atmospheres etc. I've been reading far too little fiction recently.
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Perhaps Howard created Tony in some dramatically weird clone-y modified way way, and everyone was WTF no and he was 'suck it this is my weird son now' and then just when society had gotten used to Tony having tentacles and such he cyborged himself and the whole thing started up again and now he's doing it again with robo-babies Tony not everything should be allowed to vote. Pushing the boundaries of what human means! And and and feel free to tell me not to leap on your story bits and claw frantically at them, I know some people don't like it and I won't mind. I just seem to be babbly today. :)
What kinds do you like? My hands-down favourite is the Culture; I also love the Vorkosigan series. There was an ace space-hospital series that was fantastic for giving a real sense of galatic scale - instead of doing medicine by species names, they had to classify species with a four-letter code, depending on a number of physical qualities, so you'd have an idea of what you were dealing with, and the hospital (a giant space section) had all kinds of bits with different atmospheres etc. I've been reading far too little fiction recently.