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Annalee Newitz on 'The Terraformers' and future cities

Fiction Science

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Should Robots Be Programmable to Enjoy Sex?

I was thinking about how gentrification is something that you wouldn't necessarily be able to escape even if you were building a brand new planet in space. I'm hoping that by kind of falling in love with these characters that readers will start to have empathy for people who are being displaced and priced out. Sex is just one of like 90 billion things you can enjoyYeah relationships are a big part of this book not just sexual relationships but like friendships and all the different types of relationships that uh people can form another big part ofThis book is urban planning. It's really heartbreaking to watch it happen because it isn't just about changing how buildings look or how streets look it's about actually displacing whole

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