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16Feb
41 comments on “Under the Orange Bridge”

Under the Orange Bridge

Posted by umashankaron February 16, 2014April 16, 2015in Fiction41 Comments

(It all began here. Read the previous part here.) Paul Barker came from a family of ranchers and cotton farmers, proud of its herd of quarter horses, from the South Plains of Texas. When the conscription act of 1917 came into…

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20Nov
24 comments on “Beyond I, Robot”

Beyond I, Robot

Posted by umashankaron November 20, 2013November 20, 2013in Such is Life24 Comments

It was in the early Nineties that I started reading Isaac Asimov. Goaded by lingering childhood urges, I picked up I, Robot, a collection of stories about evolution of robotics, sometimes supervised by Dr Susan Calvin, a phenomenal Robopsychologist, never…

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