Vina Jie-Min Prasad relates the story of how a museum bound old-time robot finds fulfillment and purpose in life by joining Fandom.
Computron, the 'first and only' sentient robot is ritually wheeled out as the 'Before' exhibit at the Simak Robotics Museum's daily show. A random question about a cult anime TV show leads our hero down the rabbit hole of fandom, of writing fanfiction and meeting sentient beings with similar interests. The story is partially told as chat comments in a form all who read blogs will be very familiar.
It is good fun, and full of heart, and cleverly constructed. A very fine read.
The story can be read her https://uncannymagazine.com/article/fandom-for-robots/
Interestingly, the following comments read like part of the story...
Computron, the 'first and only' sentient robot is ritually wheeled out as the 'Before' exhibit at the Simak Robotics Museum's daily show. A random question about a cult anime TV show leads our hero down the rabbit hole of fandom, of writing fanfiction and meeting sentient beings with similar interests. The story is partially told as chat comments in a form all who read blogs will be very familiar.
It is good fun, and full of heart, and cleverly constructed. A very fine read.
The story can be read her https://uncannymagazine.com/article/fandom-for-robots/
Interestingly, the following comments read like part of the story...