Is Agia a Robot?

Gerry Quinn · 19 Jun 2010, 15:16 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:16:12 +0100
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a Robot?
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From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>
>>I'd read this more as Wolfe musing, "How will I call robots without 
>>sounding like ad copy for a Japanese toy?
>>Hm, well the inventor of robots called them chemical in nature. This runs 
>>against the cliche. Thus, applying
>>Brunians' radical principle, I shall call them "chems." "
> ....
> That sounds reasonable to me.  Also, maybe their power source is 
> electrochemical, namely batteries.  Was there ever anything in the Long 
> Sun books about where they get their power, needing to recharge, etc.?

They are nuclear powered, although not necessarily all of the same type. 
Mint caused a trooper's fusion power source to blow when she struck him with 
an azoth.  And Crane was concerned about [radioactive] isotope contamination 
after he treated Lemur similarly - he said it was good that he and Silk had 
been washed by their swim in Lake Limna.

- Gerry Quinn

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