#raymond electromatic

[honkula]

The name’s Ray. Ray Electromatic.

[flugmunk]

*lights a curtain on fire* “hey ada check this out”

[cozylittleartblog]

fanart for my current fav book series, the next (last?) book is coming out soon and i’ve been meaning to draw something since i read book one over two years ago and fell in love. might draw something More Epic, just wanted to use him as style practice for the moment.

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[inhumanrobot]

Say, pals, this is a link to a short story about a robot detective that basically started my favorite series atm. Give it a read, it's free, legal, and a good time!

[slitherbop]

if u like robots and murder and murderous robots then u should read made to kill by adam christopher its a mystery novel, i love robo hitman ray electromatic

[iklees]

I only killed him once / Adam Christopher

The LA Trilogy #3

Raymond Electromatic is, voor zover hij weet, de laatste robot. Hij werkt voor het Electromatic Detective Agency, maar zijn baas, supercomputer Ada, stuurt hem er nu vooral op uit als huurmoordenaar. Dat lijkt hem goed af te gaan; toch zit Raymond iets dwars -- er gebeuren vreemde dingen, en de aantekeningen die hij heeft gemaakt om zichzelf te informeren als na 24 uur zijn geheugencyclus opnieuw begint, geven hem niet heel veel houvast.

Someone spoke. A man. Wearing after

     !!PROGRAM BREAK!!

shave and talking to someone else and

     **** ERROR 66 ****

then and

     **** ERROR 66 ****

then and

     **** ERROR 66 ****

then and

     **** SYSTEM RESTART IN 5...

I was out of memory tape. I could feel it in my chest, the

     4...

small reel hitting the end and the mechanism rewinding, not

     3...

much, just a few minutes

     2...

and the systems instigating an emergency restart to allow the tape

     1...

to record over itself and then And then    And then       And then And then I woke up and it was another beautiful day in Hollywood, California. Just like it always was, each and every morning when I woke in my alcove and the world was born anew.

Deed me denken aan Brin's Kiln People, ook in die beetje laidback, sarcastische LA noir stijl en met robots/klonen met een beperkte geheugentijd. Het blijkt het derde deel te zijn van een trilogie, maar dit deel kan zelfstandig gelezen worden. Hoe leuk het dan nog is om de eerdere delen te lezen, weet ik niet, maar misschien wil ik dat wel eens proberen.

[microwave-radiation-1]

Hey what it you made an AI and it was sorta your daughter and sorta your twin and you told it to run a detective agency and to survive and to take care of it's counterpart robot (that was sorta your son) and then the AI decided that it was going to work as a hitman because there's a lot more money in doing crimes then there is in solving them and you just let them keep on doing that because you didn't particularly care about human life and also it was an interesting experiment, would that be fucked up or what?

[microwave-radiation-1]

Ada: Hey. Hey Raymond. What if we became hitmen 

Ray: Why would we do that

Ada: $$$

Ray: ...You make a good point