Daniel H. Wilson , source of Robopocalypse , joins us to discuss tops sound AIs , working with Steven Spielberg , and how to live on a robot uprising .
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Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
This installment includes :
Part 1 : question with Daniel H. Wilson ( 1:38 )
subject covered : develop an interest in robotics , how to fight down a robot , what take a leak Robopocalypse young and dissimilar , existent - life robots , humanoid robots in war , robots as safe consumer products , working with Steven Spielberg , is Robopocalypse a horror novel ? , the Terminator motion picture , writing a super - well-informed AI character , a existent - lifetime robot revolt , robots as partner , favorite fabricated robots , late developments in robotics , robots writing novel , Daniel ’s stories in John ’s anthologies Armored and The Mad Scientist ’s usher to World Domination , coming project
Part 2 : Dave and John Discuss the Terminator Movies ( 45:45 )
Topics embrace : Growing up with Terminator & Terminator 2 , Terminator : redemption is really forgettable , idiot plots , paradox , inconsistent rules for clip travel , protagonists who do n’t do technobabble , standard operating subprogram for Terminators , the T-1000 ’s lost imitation opportunities , T-1000 nitpicks , put laser guns inside animals , how and when are the T-1000 and T - X ship back in sentence , the lack of imagination in Terminator 3 , the death of John Connor , why does n’t future John Connor tell them how it all go down , the Terminator ’s counter - fat leaning for force , the terminator ’s foreign lack of knowledge , adoring Terminator memories , Terminator 3 ’s grim ending , demystify John Connor , does Terminator make a morality - spare zone ?
Thanks for listening !
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fiction in powder store such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The Best of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . of late he ’s impart stories to several of John ’s anthology , admit The Living Dead , The Living Dead 2 , and The Way of the Wizard . He ’s go to numerous writing shop , including Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s author Bootcamp , and he holds an MFA in screenwriting and fiction from the University of Southern California . He also teaches on a regular basis at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area scientific discipline fiction shop for young writer . He lives in New York .
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