A Closed Loop Story Title Idea
Jun. 9th, 2011 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsLast night, I was looking through story ideas, trying to find something I'd want to write fiction about. I found an old note about "The Rejected," robots who had been rejected by their beloved human. One option for such robots is to join The Conspiracy Theory, an STL starship manned and crewed only by robots like them, robots in deep existential crisis about their own worthiness (see The Forever Promise for details).
The Rejected had even left that, and landed on a world far, far away from organics, where robots could live out their existence while denying their attraction to human beings. Yeah, it was supposed to be an "ex-gay" allegory.
As I faded off to sleep, my brain was thinking about an appropriate title. I kept thinking, "Well, they're made to be servants, but they're trying to be post-servitude. So instead of being Robinson Carusoe's Friday, they'd be Saturday. Saturn's Day. Hey, Saturn's Children would be a good title."
I had to inform my brain that Saturn's Children as the title for a robots-without-humans story had already been done.
Oddly, I dimly recall that Stross arrived at that title from a completely different path.
The Rejected had even left that, and landed on a world far, far away from organics, where robots could live out their existence while denying their attraction to human beings. Yeah, it was supposed to be an "ex-gay" allegory.
As I faded off to sleep, my brain was thinking about an appropriate title. I kept thinking, "Well, they're made to be servants, but they're trying to be post-servitude. So instead of being Robinson Carusoe's Friday, they'd be Saturday. Saturn's Day. Hey, Saturn's Children would be a good title."
I had to inform my brain that Saturn's Children as the title for a robots-without-humans story had already been done.
Oddly, I dimly recall that Stross arrived at that title from a completely different path.
