Electric Dreams

Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism

Heather Parry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2024
404 Ink (Verlag)
978-1-912489-86-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Inklings
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 175 mm
Gewicht	90 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-912489-86-4 / 1912489864
ISBN-13	978-1-912489-86-2 / 9781912489862
Zustand	Neuware