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    The Book of Robot
    The Book of Robot
    The Book of Robot
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    The Book of Robot

    By Ken Poyner

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    Speculative poetry exploring the development of emotion and the sense of self in robots. Description of the intersection between human and machine in modern free verse. Self-image, political will, the sense of community, the sense of loneliness. Individually, poems have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Rattle”, “The Adirondack Review”, and other literary and genre magazines.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Poyner
    Release dateFeb 16, 2019
    ISBN9780463968277
    The Book of Robot
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    Ken Poyner

    Ken Poyner has published more than 200 stories and 1200 poems in more than 200 journals and magazines, both print and web based. His books include "Cordwood" (poetry), 1985; "Sciences, Social" (poetry), 1995; "Constant Animals" (fictions), 2013; "The Book of Robot"; (poetry), 2016; "Victims of a Failed Civics"; (poetry), 2016; "Avenging Cartography"; (fictions), 2017; "The Revenge of the House Hurlers" (fictions), 2018; and more, with his latest being speculative poetry in "Lessons From Lingering Houses", 2022. He has taught creative writing on a Poets in the Schools Virginia teaching fellowship; and given readings, or taught seminars, at Bucknel University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, multiple Rhysling and Dwarf Stars awards, the Sidewise award, and several Best of the Net awards. His work appears in a number of contemporary anthologies. He is known for his surreal and Irreal topics and methods.

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      Book preview

      The Book of Robot - Ken Poyner

      The Book of Robot

      Ken Poyner

      Copyright © 2016 by Ken Poyner

      Images from www.pixabay.com and www.shutterstock.com

      ISBN-13: 978-0692799673

      ISBN-10: 0692799672

      Barking Moose Press

      www.barkingmoosepress.com

      Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following magazines and web sites which first produced the listed works.

      The Adirondack Review The Robot Experiencing Love

      Analog Science Fiction and Fact The Learning Machine

      Asimov’s Science Fiction Cinderella 2300

      Gyroscope The Robot’s Self-Diagnostic

      Illumen The Robot Hypochondriac

      Menacing Hedge Robot Reproduction

      Mindflights The Robot’s Passing

      Mobius Half a Couple

      Pank Robotic Compatibility

      The Robot Dreams

      Rattle The Robotics Problem

      Star*Line Evolution

      Robot Evolution

      The Lost Virus

      War Robots

      Subliminal Interiors Robot Pornography

      Tidal Basin Enhanced Robot Interrogation

      Table of Contents

      THE BOOK OF ROBOT

      PROM

      THE ROBOTICS PROBLEM

      DESIGNER ROBOTS

      ROBOT PORNOGRAPHY

      CHARGING THE ROBOT PROSTITUTE

      EMBEDDED RISK

      CONTAMINATED

      ROBOT CHIC

      ROBOT REPRODUCTION

      ROBOT RUSTLING

      SECOND CLASS CITIZENS

      THE ROBOT DEMIMONDAINE

      THE LEARNING MACHINE

      CINDERELLA 2300

      THE LOST VIRUS

      THE ROBOT DANCES

      THE ROBOT DREAMS

      THE ROBOT HYPOCHONDRIAC

      THE ROBOT IS BROKEN IN BULL RIDING

      THE ROBOT KNOWS LOVE

      THE ROBOT LOOKING FOR A DATE

      THE ROBOT REPORTS TO THE HOMEOWNER FOR TASKING

      THE ROBOT UNBROKEN

      THE ROBOT VAMPIRES

      THE UPGRADE OR MAKE-DO DILEMMA

      TRAINING THE ROBOT TO TEACH METAPHYSICS

      THE ROBOT’S PASSING

      EPROM

      THE ROBOT’S DIARY

      EVOLUTION

      THE ROBOT CONNECTS TO MYSTERY

      THE ROBOT’S SELF DIAGNOSTIC

      THE ROBOT IS FREED IN A WILL

      INDIVISIBLE OPTIMIZATION

      LIFE CYCLE

      WAR ROBOTS

      HERDING THE ROBOTS

      ROBOT EVOLUTION

      THE ROBOT ADVANCEMENT RALLY

      THE RADICAL ROBOTS

      ENHANCED ROBOT INTERROGATION

      ROBOT RECLAMATION

      ROBOT SALVATION

      THE SUBJUGATION OF THE NANITES

      THE ROBOT STRIKE

      OBSOLESCENCE

      SELLING THE SOUL CHIP

      ROBOTIC COMPATIBILITY

      WHEN YOU GO TO THE SCRAP HEAP

      THE ROBOT EXPERIENCING LOVE

      HALF A COUPLE

      THE COURTING ALGORITHM

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      THE BOOK OF ROBOT

      This is the overview of layers:

      How processor stacks upon processor;

      How chips feed into arrays;

      How array upon array slips into core.

      Here is the schematic of how cache

      Is locked, cornered with a single gate.

      This is the drawing

      Of one particular processor’s latches,

      The termination of pathways,

      The ascendancy of execution registers.

      Here

      Is a gleeful list of processor types,

      Each with a different purpose,

      From simplest appliance

      To central master controller.

      These are the cunning design diagrams

      For power monitoring, and secondary recovery.

      Here are the options for memory maps:

      Memory available to core;

      Memory for semi-autonomous systems;

      Memory for personalization.

      There are the interrupt filaments,

      Cold in their warming ways.

      Here is how and where expansion slots can add

      Their heft, fit contentedly in with everything else.

      For all factory recommended programs,

      There is even a list of DLL branch points

      And a series of processor affinities.

      Later, there are chassis interconnects,

      The tolerances for locomotion,

      The width of registers given over to balance.

      Options and upgrades are included,

      With what benefit must go when another,

      Curiously specific, is added.

      Accessing each scintillating diagram is like stretching

      A soul between two equal oblivions.

      I page through the whole of it as a persistent

      Background routine, see in myself

      All the skill and imagination of the engineers

      I may never meet, but who I can know through this manifest.

      This is the blueprint of

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