tailieunhanh - The Robot and the One You Love

Black polycarbon tentacles hissing across concrete, the diener robot continued along M Street, warmed by the July sun. Its shell was made of porcelain the color of a blue sky, the color of dreams. Sitting in the controller egg at home, Jerome squirmed, feeling as if someone were scraping his skin from the inside. The clear path along the sidewalk turned into cratered moonscape, street sounds to electric charivari. The fragile interlink between him and the diener robot was breaking up in a burst of neurological static. "You pulling anything interesting?" Jerome asked, fighting to stay oriented. His perceptions shifted from room to street and back again, like a. | feedboo is The Robot and the One You Love Maddox Tom Published 1988 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Source http 1 About Maddox Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement. His first novel was Halo ISBN 0-312-85249-5 published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story Snake Eyes appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling. He is perhaps best-known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson they wrote two episodes of the X-Files together Kill Switch and First Person Shooter . Maddox is the originator of the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics or ICE . According to Maddox he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland Oregon. Gibson asked permission to use the acronym and Maddox agreed. The term was then used in Gibson s early short stories and eventually popularized in the novel Neuromancer in which Maddox was properly acknowledged. Tom Maddox has licensed his work under a Creative Commons License making a significant part of it available on his website Tom Maddox Fiction and Nonfiction Archive. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Maddox Halo 1991 Snake Eyes 1996 Gravity s Angel 1992 The Mind Like A Strange Balloon 1985 Copyright Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and or check the copyright status in your country. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Electronic License This work is released under a Creative Commons License ht- tp licenses by-nd-nc