Electric Dreams
Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism
Published on 21. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-912489-86-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the future, we'll all be having sex with robots... won't we?
Roboticists say they're a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic?
Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what's being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.
Roboticists say they're a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic?
Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what's being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 171 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
90 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912489-86-2 (9781912489862)
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Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer, editor, and publisher. She is the co-founder and Editorial Director of Extra Teeth magazine, co-host of the Teenage Scream podcast and the Scottish Senior Policy & Liaison Manager for the Society of Authors, a trade union for writers. In 2021 she created the free-access Illustrated Freelancer's Guide with artist Maria Stoian. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was published in October 2022 and a short story collection, This Is My Body, Given for You, is forthcoming in May 2023.