Eros, Philia, Agape: A Tor.Com Original
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Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky’s contemporary tale of like in all its forms
— and of one robot’s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms
— is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.
Rachel Swirsky’s fleeting fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Incomprehensible Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year’s Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.
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I really loved this fleeting tale. It was unexpected, and certainly thought provoking in that I had never spent time wondering about the role of robots in our future, and have spent time imagining since I finished the tale.
A small oddly worded at times, but still excellent enough to be worth it.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
If you re-imagined I Sing The Body Electric, by Ray Bradbury, as an Oprah Book of the Month tale, this is what you would get. I struggled to end it, and it’s a fleeting tale (factually, it’s maybe 20 or 30 pages).
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I reflect the leader took what could have been a heavy handed allegory and treated it with a delicate touch. I’ve seen the thought before, but I thought it unfolded with precision and beauty.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I had a tough time with this fleeting tale. At it’s core it is a coming of age tale about a robot that leaves his wife and daughter to find himself. Most of the tale is really backstory leading you back to the moment when he leaves.
We were not told he was a robot until later in the tale, which really had me confused for a while. The tale introduced the robot then didn’t talk about him for a long time. Consequently I had to flip back and into the world to the beginning a couple times to make sure the tale was talking about the same character, which is not simple on the Kindle.
By the end I really liked the tale, and if you are huge into relationships, particularly sci-fi related, I’d recommend it, but for me it had a rough start and soured my opinion through to the end. Subsequent reading might improve my rating. That being said, it’s free on Amazon, so get it and delight in, you have nothing to lose but about an hour of your time.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Moving, thought-provoking and elegantly written. Recommended to all readers who have both a heart and a brain.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5