I, Robot (Cory Doctorow)

For other uses, see I, Robot (disambiguation).

I, Robot is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published April 15, 2005.^[1] According to Doctorow's website:

In spring 2004, in the wake of Ray Bradbury pitching a tantrum over Michael Moore appropriating the title of Fahrenheit 451 to make Fahrenheit 9/11, I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the totalitarian assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives.

The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed.

The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower.^[1]

References

1 2 http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/i-robot.html

External links

The story is also available as a free online ebook under a Creative Commons License

Cory Doctorow

Novels	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005) Makers (2009) The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Charles Stross)

Young-adult novels	Little Brother (2008) For the Win (2010) Pirate Cinema (2012) Homeland (2013)

Short story collections	A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2003) Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (2007) With a Little Help (2010)

Non-fiction	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (2001) Content (2008) Context (2011) Information Doesn't Want to Be Free (2014)

Other	Boing Boing Whuffie /usr/bin/god (canceled)

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