" When you see a diffe
I think it was Eric Idle's Road To Mars. Deb
" When you see a difference in a person and can find only wickedness in it - you and them - the 'them' become fair game, not people anymore but obstacles to the greater good, and it's always open sweason on 'them'"
from Court Of The Air by Stephen Hunt
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From: Gordon Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Telling jokes to a robot
Maybe "The Caves of Steel" by Asimov?
G. P. Taylor
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On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Barry Haworth wrote:
> I was chatting with a friend yesterday and he mentioned a SF book he read
> some time ago. Don't have much detail about when it was written or what
> form (novel, short or whatever), but what he recalled was that it involved
> a detective type character who had to distinguish humans from (obviously
> very humanoid) robots. He did so by means of humour; telling jokes to the
> robots, as a robot did not react to humour in the same way that a human
> would.
>
> I suggested Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but he was
> quite definite that it wasn't that one. He thought it might have been
> Asimov. Does this description ring any bells with anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry
>
> --
> I am a Statistician. One False move and you're a Statistic.
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