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Human-Robot Intimate Relationships in QC

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mustang6172:
I think we all missed an obvious pop culture reference.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbq_Oar7gA

ischaemia:
QC has touched so many other bases in interpersonal relationships (at least as far as LGBT pairings go), so I admit I wouldn't be surprised if something like this eventually happened; the Sci Fi aficionado in me pretty deeply hopes for it, even. I can understand the reservation on Jeph's end, though; maybe for all of the relationships he's had in the comic so far, he's concerned something like a Robot/AI/Station/Human pairing would take away from the seriousness and legitimacy of everything else he's presented. I can understand that, and I guess I'll always have Janelle Monáe's body of work for anything I feel like I'm losing out on.

I'm still secretly kind of sad Station and Hanners didn't develop at all, but ah, what can you do.

andrew:
This has been a very interesting thread, with a lot of careful thought on it.

It reminds me of an old SF short story, "Helen O'Loy", written by Lester del Rey back in 1938 (it appears in Gunn's "Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1" collection). And this was written back in the days when sex was absolutely prohibited in science fiction, but love was (barely) permitted, as long as it appeared to follow then-current societal conventions. And del Rey didn't deal with the issues brought up here nearly as much. Of course, it was a short story; how many pages did he have to do so, and still fit the actual story in?  :-)

So, should Jeph choose to go there, there is precedence (and far more than just my one fairly tame reference).

Is it cold in here?:
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