Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge
01010010 01010011 01101100 01101001 01110111 01101001 01101110 01110011 01101011 01101001 (RSliwinski) – I thought this one caught the nature of a robot perfectly, perhaps with the vaguest hint of self evolution. For countless years the robot follows its programming, tending the garden for millennia, and yet inside as it goes through the motions it is aware of words like love and hate, but is unable to understand the feeling beneath the words.
01001010 00100000 01010010 01101001 01100110 01100110 (J Riff) – I liked the feel of this one, playing with our perceptions. The mechanical boredom of the robots, surveying Mars, and finding nothing. It almost gives the feeling of pointlessness in exploring a planet where there is nothing. But that is only what we or it can see, and there are always things beyond our perceptions, and sometimes we do more damage through the lack of understanding... It made me thing of Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.
01010100 01000100 01011010 (TDZ) – I’m not completely sure what the underlying inference is in this story, but I felt that it was, perhaps an abused child and the response to her cries for help, from a protective robot. Obviously not governed by Asimov’s laws, the robots response is close to justice as a mechanical can come especially if the robots name was Jesus... great story!
01000010 01101111 01100010 (Bob) – A simply amusing story, a nice different tale. A repo-man with a job that just does not seem fair. Sent to the bad side of town to repossess something from an unsavoury group. Makes you wonder why they were so determined to hold onto their little toy eh?
01010011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 (Stormfeather) – A poem! And what a poem too, I loved the use of words, especially in the second verse. The overall feel of time passing and the gradual change from man to machine, and even more the brief examination of how myths and legends can exaggerate the truth of a given situation. Great!
01000001 01101110 01101110 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 (Anne Martin) – Ahh the progress of technology, becoming smaller and smaller, doing more and yet somehow, through design and need becoming more and more redundant until in the end something that was once the shining pinnacle of the modern world, is just not needed any more. Thought the sudden cut off at the end, really gave the story a perfect ending too.
