My new book, Randolph Runner -- sf, anti-Trump satire

[DavidDvorkin]

(I cleared this post with EarlG. It's an advertisement, but it's timely.)

Butler, warrior, moral philosopher, robot. Randolph is all that and more.

Randolph is the prized product of Superior Domestics, a Silicon Valley firm dedicated to producing robot servants for people who grew up watching British period costume dramas on PBS. The company’s motto is, “All the gracious living of Upstairs with none of the unseemly drama of Downstairs.”

When the novel opens with the assassination of King Donald II and a coup d’état, Randolph epitomizes that motto. He is calm, quiet, supremely competent, always in the background, and never interfering. He is a mere witness to great events. He is focused on supervising his staff and properly running the household of General Henry Redgrave, architect of the coup and would–be power behind the throne.

War! Romance! Sex! Skulduggery! Artificial Intelligence! And lots of other stuff, too.

Read more here: http://www.dvorkin.com/ranrun/

[erronis]

1. Ahhh. I need a bit of escapism - thanks. Oh, wait - this may be another non-fake reality show.

I haven't watched the trailer but could you let me know if the "Sex!" involves robots?

[DavidDvorkin]

2. The sex is all people

The main robot is Randolph, who thinks a lot about things. However, he is also a butler of action.

[erronis]

3. Just went through your site - this looks like fun - I'll report back.

Also shared experiences with FORTRAN (BLOCK COMMON), NASA, Mid-west heat/humidity, 36-bit (mine was GE/HW) and CDC 6600. Oh, and those 3-day 24/day coding/debugging marathons.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Parsing dumps to track things down.