I want to write a story with a robot or an android, preferably

>>9762766
Don't waste your potential on scifi anon. It's time to grow up.

My diary de-su~

>>9762766
read i, robot and bicentennial man by asimov.

some parts of Cloud Atlas
The Windup Girl

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Do Androids Dream of Etc but only because of the Spider scene. Everything else is kinda muddled and probably serves better as a guide on what NOT to do - its clear PKD was writing more about human experience itself than juxtaposing it with artificial Android experience. Blade Runner itself is also really good since it goes from the opposite direction.

>want to write a book about a human 'raising' an Android
>been setting up research notes about psychology, prosthetics, and Hoffstadter's concepts
>my fucking face when PKD's androids are basically cartoon villains

>>9762791
PKD is about as far from hard SF as possible while still being SF, how is this surprising?

>>9762805
I didn't expect hard sci-fi, I just wanted something that tried to touch on the Android experience and came up empty-handed, other than the spider scene.

To compare, before reading Do Androids, I read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Etc and MYCROFT is a much stronger, better characterized machine consciousness despite a lot of easy writing shortcuts and simplifications to the idea of A.I. Its not hard scifi, but it touches the theme a lot better than PKD's Androids did.

>>9762791
Pleb

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>>9762791
>my fucking face when PKD's androids are basically cartoon villains
>Implying the movie with the acrobat streetwalker and Rutger Hauer in full saturday morning kids show mode attempting to menace Deckard isn't even more cartoony
I don't even think Androids is PKD's best work or anything but the movie is all style and no substance. It makes the book seem like the most thought provoking science fiction work by comparison.

>>9762782
>some parts of Cloud Atlas

oh yeah i forgot about somni. noted.