Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Friday, September 2, 2011

Giger's Art: A Lesson for Horror Writers of the Biomechanical Age

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman Horrific sex is about domination and submission, about control and being controlled, about power a...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Man’s Best Friend, Vitalism, The Ghost in the Machine, H. R. Giger, and a Concluding Unscientific Postscript

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Whoever has observed a kitten or a puppy play with a mechanical toy has probably noticed how the animal is confused by the automaton’s m...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots: What’s the Diff?

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Let's start with that old pedagogical favorite, a-- Pop quiz : 1. Star Trek ’s Data is A. an android B...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Indexing Horror

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Not many horror novelists are apt to peruse non-fiction books’ indices for fun and profit, but doing so ca...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Techno- and Other Phobias

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Rubens' Medusa: an image of both gynephobia and serpentephobia? There seems little doubt that there ar...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Modern Monsters

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.” -- Pogo Before Christianity, paganism supplied humanity’s monsters...
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Conversation Partners: Creating Mars and Venus

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman   In science fiction, humanoid robots were once all androids, albeit without the specific parts that, am...