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"I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff."
- William Gibson
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| Autotrawler Autonomous Fishing Factory Ship | ||
| An entirely autonomous vessel with imprisoned labor that scrapes the sea for protein and off-loads it to other ships. |
The labor force consists of people kidnapped and taken on board.
| He knew the ship’s details down to the processing deck, the flash-freeze factory, the ports and rails. He had studied the thick, opaque, hardened glass of the wheelhouse, and its reinforced steel plate door, beyond which lay the ship’s AI—its mind full of sonar, full of maps of banks and shoals, trawling methods and market prices.
Stenciled over the armored steel door of the wheelhouse, in English, was: WOLF LARSEN, CAPTAIN. When Eiko had asked about the name, one of the other crew members—one of the other slaves—had laughed bitterly. “It’s a joke. A reference to some old book or movie. But there’s nothing behind that door but the AI core. It controls the engines and the navigation. It decides where we go, and when. It follows the fish and the profit. It decides when we dock, too—" ...Autotrawlers crewed by slave crews. |
| Technovelgy from The Mountain in the Sea,
by Ray Naylor. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022 Additional resources -
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Compare to the autonomous ship from Paradise and Iron (1930), by Miles J. Breuer, the boat trees from The Houses of Iszm (1954) by Jack Vance and the sea robot from The Metal Monster (Jarvis) (1943) by E.K. Jarvis.
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