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"It was [H.G. Wells'] adolescent fiction, his imaginative stories, that live forever - and yet are not acknowledged in literature classes as being great literature. So to hell with the academics!"
- Greg Bear
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| Maritime Robots | ||
| Robots designed to perform every aspect of maintenance for a ship. |
| Most other fine super-yachts simply sank with the many passing decades: from the many cruel burdens of our history, the wars, plagues, famines, the police or pirates. But the Olga never failed us, because her onboard robots repaired her faster than she could decay.
My wise grandfather had designed the yacht with that philosophy. His maritime robots, installed on board, were great-armed, swivelling, headless machines, painted bright aviation orange, with multiple elbows and many plug-in tools. They maintained and repaired the ship’s engines, and also managed the rigging, rudder, radar, the solar panels, sun awnings, the grand galley, and even the jacuzzi. |
| Technovelgy from Mare Nostrum,
by Bruce Sterling. Published by Delos in 2022 Additional resources -
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Compare to the autofreighter from The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor.
Compare to the repair robots from The Well-Oiled Machine (1950) by H.B. Fyfe, automated apartment maintenance from Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick,
the Powered Suit with Trauma Maintenance from The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman,
the service drones from The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979) by James P. Hogan,
the Christmas Bush Motile Robot from Rocheworld (1985) by Robert Forward and the
maintenance drone (holon) from The Mountain in the Sea (2022) by Ray Naylor.
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