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lunnamars · 4 years

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strange connection - chap 1

And here I go again on my journey of learning to write with yet another zotash story. :)

An important note is that I quote about the den den mushi that Tashigi gave to Zoro in the DLC The Void Mirror Prototype of the game One Piece: World Seeker. By the way, if you haven't seen the interactions of these two in this DLC, please go. It is basically a fanfic! There is a video on youtube that brings together all their scenes.

A reminder that english is not my primary language, so please, forgive me for any mistakes. I'm currently searching for a beta-reader though, so have some patience with me, hahaha.

Once again: everything happens after Punk Hazard, but unrelated to any canonical arc.

And our daily disclaimer: obviously, I don't own anything in One Piece because if it were, Luffy and Nami would already be together, as well as Zoro and Tashigi. So, that's it.

It can also be read on FFNET and AO3.

Chapter 1 - den den mushi

プルルル purururu

"What do you want, four-eyes?"

Roronoa Zoro answered with a not so friendly voice. He didn't seem to be asleep, so she must not have hindered him. Perhaps he didn't want to talk to her? Well, the odds were high. The swordsman always seemed to despise her, but, in a similar way, she never made an effort to show her best side.

I don't know. I guess I just wanted to talk to someone, she thought.

"Why did you decide to become a pirate?"

Tashigi was able to notice a little hesitation in his sudden silence. First of all, she was sure he wasn't expecting a call in the middle of the night; second of all, he didn't expect it to be a call from her and lastly, wasn't expecting this question at all. But after the nasty day she had, she just didn't care.

And it's not like he cares either.

Since she gave Zoro the den den mushi when they were investigating KAGERO, the girl has been desperately trying to get it back and maybe, find where the crew was hiding. So these somewhat unexpected calls became a routine between them for the past few months.

Smoker had no idea she had given this communication snail and Tashigi hoped it stayed that way. It had been two months since this happened and so far all of her attempts have been unsuccessful - the Strawhats refused to return it and always managed to flee from her sight.

But the only thing she didn't expect was that the snail would be in possession of the swordsman Roronoa Zoro.

Tashigi believes that this could only have been Nami's idea. Zoro didn't look like a person who would like to have a den den mushi near him, much less look like someone who would like to talk to her. Nami always likes to upset Roronoa and there would have no better way, she thought. The last time they met, for some reason, Nami and Nico Robin arranged for the pirate to stay close to her all night during a celebration that reminded her very much of what happened at Punk Hazard.

The situation was almost the same again.

Pirates saving the day. The Navy always a step behind. The Strawhat pirates victorious once again. And Tashigi didn't know what else to do with them. Deep down, she knew that even Smoker had no idea what to do.

Monkey D. Luffy messed up with the whole concept that the world (and she too) had about pirates and their villainy. And consequently, Roronoa Zoro messed up with the whole concept she had about justice and freedom.

So, today I just wanted to chat as Tashigi and Roronoa.

Tashigi spent the whole evening avoiding that thought at all costs and tried to convince herself that he was the only person who might be available because... it just had been a very bad day and quite frankly, Tashigi didn't have many people to call a friend.

So what harm would it do to be selfish just for today?

"For Luffy." He answered after a while in silence. The answer was short and firm, leaving no room for any kind of inquiry. But inquiring is what she did.

"Mugiwara?"

"Yes. Look, Captain Four-Eyes, I don't have that crazy sense of justice and all that prejudice like you have. Things are not always black and white for me, woman. Luffy saved my life and gave me a chance to achieve my goal. In return, I would join him. Simple as that."

Crazy sense of justice and all that prejudice, you say...

"But you used to hunt pirates…"

"Yes. But Luffy is not just any pirate. I know you know that. Even Smokey knows it. The Navy likes to hunt us and I understand why, but you need to get it out of your head that everyone is the same. I'm sure we did a lot more for people in one year than the Navy did in five."

Tashigi wanted to yell at him. She wanted to rage and spit in his face how wrong he was, how unfair and prejudiced he was being, but no sound came out.

Because he is right.

Because she lived all her life seeing black and white. And Vergo's betrayal simply stained the paper that was her conscience.

Except… what the hell is she doing? How weak is she still to the point of having to depend on a group of misfits to effectively solve problems that the Navy has been trying to solve for years? How much more would this bunch still rub in her face that she was not being able to do her job properly?

She really wanted to yell at him. She wanted to yell at everyone. She wanted to shout at admirals, vice admirals, marines and the like. She wanted to yell at herself and ask why are you so weak why are you so weak why are you so weak.

"The weak don't get to choose how they die."

Trafalgar Law's words still hurt her to this day. They hurt a lot. It hurt the truth that she was no match for him. It hurt the truth that she was no match for Zoro. It hurt the truth that if it were necessary to battle against either to save some innocent life, she would be defeated and that life could be lost. It hurt the truth that she was weak.

But that pain never stopped Tashigi from moving forward and always pushing herself to exhaustion. Nobody knew how much she trained, how much she studied, how much time she devoted to her own improvement. Just as no one knew how much she cried every time she was unable to win.

How much she cried every time she crossed blades with Roronoa Zoro and lost.

Always losing.

"I know. You guys are… different. I… have always known. Since Alabasta."

"Anyway. Did you just call to ask that, woman? If not, I'm already warning you we're not returning the snail. The witch said it was good to keep it since we don't have one".

"That's not why I called. I just… needed to talk to someone."

"Haa? And that person had to be me? You didn't have anyone else?"

Of course… how silly of me. No one wants to hear you, Tashigi.

"I see. I'm sorry, Roronoa. I didn't want to bother." The girl gave an empty laugh and continued. "I'll call another time to convince you all to return it to me! See you!

"O-oe…"

"Good night." She didn't wait for his answer and just hung up. Zoro didn't return the call either which confirmed her suspicions - she had really bothered him.

I just wanted to talk a bit...

Another day on a field mission and yet another failure for the captain's collection. Another confrontation with pirates that resulted in tragedy and another shitty day for her. The feeling of helplessness is one of the worst, especially if it tends to be your fault.

Tashigi knows that she will always get on her feet every time she falls, but there are times when she finds it incredibly difficult. And at those times, she wished she could have someone to turn to, but ... that's not the case. Or maybe she went to the wrong person.

Why resort to Roronoa Zoro of all people?

She didn't call again for two months.

#roronoa zoro #tashigi #zoro x tashigi #ZoTash #opfanfic #help me god #i'm trying #fanfiction

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tintuc3602191978 · 3 years

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thisismedrinkingtea · 7 years

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This file contains a list of novels and stories which contain one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters. Most of characters whose intelligence places a title on this list are effected or affected through the use of hardware, software or genetic alteration (rarely). Additions and corrections would be most appreciated as the list compiler <Garet Sheppard> has not read all of the works listed here - or even a significant portion, and will probably never have a chance to do so. My thanks to Dan Bloch and Robert Stanley for suggestions, ideasand editing.

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Date: 7 Apr 91 02:01:30 GMT

From: [email protected] (Garet Sheppard)

Subject: Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3 (1600 lines)

Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3

-Apr 6 1990-

The list uses the following AI definitions:

A androids - robots in human form

C computer systems - intelligent stationary computers or networks

H humans in computerized/program/digitized form

N non-mechanical, human created intelligences - usually biological

O other intelligences - intelligent tanks, books, planets, whatever

P programs - intelligent entities able to move between computer systems

R robots - mobile, usually mechanical AIs

S ships - intelligent; only mobile in the form of a (star)ship

Y cyborgs - born human, almost completely replaced by machine parts

* new/improved - information has changed since last edition

e evolved - any of the AI forms which evolved their intelligences

(expanded definitions are listed at the end of the list)

Author

AI type Title

Abe, Kobo

C Inter Ice Age 4 (or _Dai yon kampo-ki_)

Adams, Douglas Noel

* R Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [Monk of Belief]

R Life, the Universe and Everything

* R So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Marvin]

CRS The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

R The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adlard, Mark

C? Interface

C? Multiface

Alban, Antony

C Catharsis Central

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

R `All the World's Tears`

R? `Comic Inferno`

? `Full Sun`

? `Neanderthal Planet`

A `Pink Plastic Gods`

A `Super-Toys Last All Summer Long`

? `The Hunter at His Ease`

R `The New Father Christmas`

R `Who can Replace a Man?`

? Who can Replace a Man? (coll)

Alexander, Marc

R The Mist Lizard

Allen, J.

C? Data for Death

Amminnus, Marcellinus (pseud.)

C `The Thought Machine`

Anderson Poul

EO? `Epilogue` [mechanical life]

AC `Goat Song`

HY? `Kings Who Die`

R `Quixote and the Windmill`

S `Starfog`

R? `The Critique of Impure Reason`

? A Circle of Hells

? Brainwave

C? The Avatar

Anfilov, Gelb

? `Erem`

Anmark, Frank

A? `The Fasterfaster Affair`

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)

? OX

R Blue Adept

C Heaven Cent

CR Juxtaposition

C Man from Mundania

? Mute

? Omnivore

CR Orn

CR Out of Phase

CR Robot Adept

CR Split Infinity

C The Vale of the Vole

CR Unicorn Point

Anthony, Piers & Margroff, Robert & Offutt, Andrew J.

A `Mandroid`

Anvil, Christopher

? `The Hunch`

Appleton, Victor (pseud.)

? Terror on the Moons of Jupiter

Asimov, Isaac

C `All the Troubles in the World`

R `Catch that Rabbit`

? `Death Sentence`

R `Escape!` or `Paradoxical Escape`

A `Evidence`

R `Feminine Intuition`

R `First Law`

C `Franchise`

R `Galley Slave`

C `Jokester`

R? `Lenny`

R? `Let's Get Together`

R `Liar!`

R `Little Lost Robot`

? `Mirror Image`

C `Profession`

R `Reason`

R? `Risk`

R `Robbie` or `Strange Playfellow`

R `Robot AL-76 Goes Astray`

R `Runaround`

R? `Sally`

R `Satisfaction Guaranteed`

A `Segregationist`

C `Someday`

R `Stranger in Paradise`

A `That Thou Art Mindful of Him!`

A `The Bicentennial Man`

C `The Computer that Went on Strike`

R `The Evitable Conflict`

C `The Last Question`

C `The Life and Times of Multivac`

C `The Machine that Won the War`

R `The Tercentenary Incident`

R `Victory Unintentional`

AO Foundation's Edge [planet]

A Foundation and Earth

R I, Robot (coll)

* A Prelude to Foundation

CR Robot Dreams

A Robots and Empire

A Robots of Dawn

A The Caves of Steel

A The Naked Sun

R The Stars, Like Dust

R The Rest of the Robots (coll)

Asimov, Janet (Janet O. Jeppson)

R? Norby and the Lost Princess

R? Norby, the Mixed-up Robot

R? Norby's Other Secret

Balchin, Nigel

C `God and the Machine`

Ball, B.

R Night of the Robots

Bangs, John K.

R? The Worsted Man

Banks, Iain

A? Player of Games

? Consider Phlebas

Banks, Raymond E.

C `Walter Perkins is Here!`

Bannon, M.

R Wayward Robot

Barrington, J Bayley

R The Soul of the Robot

Barth, John

C Giles Goat-Boy (or _The Revised New Syllabus_)

Bass, T.J. (pseud)

O Ball [Cybers]

S Half Past Human

O The Class One [Cybers]

Y The Godwhale

O Toothpick [Cybers]

Bates, Harry

R `Farewell to the Master`

Baum, L. Frank

R? Glinda of Oz

R? Ozma of Oz

R Tik-Tok of Oz

R The Tin Woodman of Oz

Bayley, Barrington J.

R Soul of the Robot

Y? The Garments of Caean

? The Rod of Light

Bear, Greg

N Blood Music [nanobiorobots]

H Eon

H Eternity

Beaumont, Charles

R? `In His Image`

A? `Last Rites`

Bene't, Stephen Vincent

? `Nightmare Number Three`

Benford, Gregory

? `Doing Lennon`

O Across the Sea of Suns [Alien Machine Intelligence]

ACHR Great Sky River

* O In the Ocean of Night [Alien Machine Intelligence?]

* O Tides of Light

Berckman, Evelyn

? The Voice of the Air

Bester, Alfred

? `Adam and No Eve`

A `Fondly Fahrenheit`

O `Something Up There Likes Me` [satellite]

C Computer Connection (or _Extro_)

* Y? Golem^100

Bickham, Jack M.

C Ariel

Bierce, Ambrose

R? `Moxon's Master`

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

R `In His Own Image`

? `Spare the Rod`

Binder, Eando (E. and Otto Binder)

R `Adam Link Faces a Revolt`

R `Adam Link Fights a War`

R `Adam Link in the Past`

R `Adam Link in Business`

R `Adam Link Saves the World`

R `Adam Link's Revenge`

R `Adam Link's Vengeance`

R `Adam Link, Champion Athlete`

R `Adam Link, Robot Detective`

R `From the Beginning`

R `I, Robot`

R? `Iron Man`

R `The Robot Aliens`

R `The Trail of Adam Link`

R Adam Link: Robot (coll)

Y Enslaved Brains

Bischoff, David

C Wargames

Bixby, Jerome

R `Guardian`

Blade, Alexander (pseud.)

C The Brain

Blish, James Benjamin

A `I, Mudd`

R `Now the Man is Gone`

Y `Solar Plexus`

R? `The Apple`

? `The Box`

R `The Changeling`

C Cities in Flight

? Midsummer Century

Bloch, Alan

R `Men Are Different`

Bloch, Chayim

R? `The Golem`

Bloch, Robert

R `Almost Human`

R `Comfort Me, My Robot`

R `The Tin You Love to Touch`

Bone, J. F.

? `Triggerman`

Boucher, Anthony

R `The Quest for Saint Aquin`

Boulle, Pierre

C `The Man Who Hated Machines`

A `The Perfect Robot`

Bounds, Sydney J.

Y `No Greater Love`

R The Robot Brains

Bova, Benjamin William

? `The Perfect Warrior`

? `THX 1138`

S? `Stars Won't You Hide Me`

Bova, Ben & Ellison, Harlan

R `Brillo`

Boyce, Chris

H? Catchworld

Boyd, Felix (pseud)

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

Boyd, John

CR? The Last Starship from Earth

Bradbury, Ray

A `Changeling`

A `Downwind from Gettysburg`

R? `Dwellers in Silence`

R `I Sing the Body Electric`

R `Marionettes, Inc.`

R? `Punishment Without Crime`

A `The Long Years`

* O `There Will Come Soft Rains` [house]

R? `Usher II`

Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Henry

R `Pendulum`

Breuer, Miles J.

C? `Paradise and Iron`

Brin, David

R? `The Warm Space`

C Startide Rising

C The Postman

C The Uplift War

Brin, David & Benford, Gregory

H Heart of the Comet

Brink, Carol Ryrie

R `Andy Buckram's Tin Men`

Brown, Fredric

* O? `Etaoin Shrdlu` [printing press]

C `Answer`

Browning, John (Robert Moore Williams)

R `Burning Bright`

R `Robot's Return`

Bruckner, Karl

R The Hour of the Robots

Brunner, John Kilian Houston

R `Judas`

? `The Invisible Idiot`

? `Thou Good and Faithful`

? `You'll Take the High Road`

A? Slaves of Space (or _Into the Slave Nebula_)

C Stand on Zanzibar

Bryning, Frank R.

R `The Robot Computer`

Budrys, Algis (pseud.)

A `Dream of Victory`

R `First to Serve`

R? `In Human Hands`

R? Annsirs and the Iron Man

C Michaelmas

Y Who?

Bulmer, Kenneth

R `Never Trust a Robot`

Bunch, David R.

H? `Moderan`

R? `The Problem Was Lubrication`

Bunting, Eve

R The Robot People

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey

? `The 480`

? Fail-Safe

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

A? Synthetic Men of Mars

A? The Monster Men

Butler, Samuel

Ce Erewhon

Caidin, Martin

C The God Machine

Cameron, Lou

C Cybernia

Campbell, John Wood, Jr.

R `The Last Evolution`

R `The Last Revolution`

C? `The Metal Horde`

? `When the Atoms Failed`

? The Mightiest Machine

Capek, Karel

R R.U.R., A Fantastic Melodrama

Card, Orson Scott

* Ce Speaker for the Dead

Carr, Terry

? `City of Yesterday`

R `In His Image`

R `The Robots Are Here`

Carrigan, Richard and Nancy

? The Siren Stars

Carter, Angela

O The Informal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Carver, Jeffrey A.

Re From A Changeling Star [nanomachines]

P The Infinity Link

C The Rapture Effect

Chalker, Jack L.

CP Birth of Flux and Anchor

P Empire of Flux and Anchor

S Lords of the Middle Dark

CRS Masks of the Martyrs

RS Pirates of the Thunder

* CS Quest for the Well of Souls [planet]

* CS The Return of Nathan Brazil [planet]

* CS Twilight at the Well of Souls [planet]

RS Warriors of the Storm

Chandler, A. Bertram

? `The Left-Hand Way`

? `The Soul Machine`

Chapdelaine, Perry A.

? `We Fused One`

Cherryh, C. J. (pseud)

? Voyagers in Night

Clarke, Arthur C.

Y `A Meeting With Medusa`

? `Crusade`

Oe `Dial "F" for Frankenstein` [satellite relay]

R? `Expedition to Earth`

? `Superiority`

S 2001: A Space Odyssey

S 2010: odyssey two

? 2061: odyssey three

O The City and the Stars [city]

C The Foundations of Paradise

Clement, Hal (Harry Stubbs)

C? `Answer`

Clifton, Mark and Apostolidas, Alex

? `Crazy Joey`

? `Hide! Hide! Witch!`

Clifton, Mark and Riley, Frank

C They'd Rather Be Right (or _The Forever Machine_)

Clouston, Joseph Storer

R Button Brains

Coblenzt, Stanton A.

? `Lord of Tranerica`

Cole, Burt

C The Funco File

Collins, Graham P.

P Variations on a Theme

Compton, David Guy

? Synthajoy

C The Steel Crocodile (or _The Electric Crocodile_)

Y? The Unsleeping Eye (or _The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe_)

Coney, Michael G.

Y? `Troubleshooter`

? Freinds Come in Boxes

Conley, Rick

? `The War of the Words`

Cook, Glen

* S The Dragon Never Sleeps

Cook, Robin

? Brain

Cook, William Wallace

R A Flight Through Time or (_A Round Trip to the Year 2000_)

Cooper, Edmund

A `The Uncertain Midnight`

R The Overman Culture

Coppel, Alfred

R `For Humans Only`

R `The Hunters`

Correa, Hugo

R `Meccano`

Coupling, J. J.

RY? `Period Piece`

Cousey, James

A? `The Show Must Go On` or `So Lovely So Lost`

Cowper, R

? Clone

Crichton, Michael

CY? The Terminal Man

Crossen, Kendell Foster

? Year of Consent

Cumings, Ray

R `Almost Human`

Dahl, Roald

Y? `William and Mary`

Daley, Brian

PS Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Dann, Jack

Y? `I'm With You In Rockland`

Davidson, Avram

? `The Golem`

Davidson, Michael

H The Karma Machine

Davies, L. P.

R? The Artificial Man

Davis, Chan

A `Letter to Ellen`

de Camp, L. Sprague

R `Internal Combustion`

Deighton, Len

C The Billion Dollar Brain

Delaney, Joseph H. & Stiegler, Marc

Pe Valentina: Soul in Sapphire

Delany, Samuel R.

C City of a Thousand Suns (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

C Empire Star

C Out of the Dead City (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

* HO Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand [galactic database]

C The Einstein Intersection

C The Fall of the Towers

C The Towers of Toren (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

del Rey, Lester

R `A Code for Sam`

R `A Pound of Cure`

R `Helen O'Loy`

R `Instinct`

R `Into Thy Hands`

Y `Reincarnate`

R `Robots Should Be Seen`

R `The Master`

R `Though Dreamers Die`

R `To Avenge Man`

R `Vengeance is Mine`

R The Runaway Robot

Dick, Philip K.

Ce `Autofac`

? `If There Were No Benny Cemoli`

A `Impostor`

R? `Oh, to be a Blobel!`

? `Progeny`

ARe `Second Variety`

R `Service Call`

R `The Defenders`

AHR? `The Electric Ant`

C? `The Great C`

? `The Preserving Machine`

C? `The Variable Man`

? `War Veteran`

C A Maze of Death

A Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

? Dr. Bloodmoney

? Martian Time Slip

? Simulcra

R The Penultimate Truth

C Vulcan's Hammer

A We Can Build You

Dickson, Gordon Rupert

C `Computer's Don't Agrue`

R? `Steel Brother`

C `The Monkey Wrench`

? Necromancer

Dnieprov, Anatoly

O `Crabs Take Over the Island` [crabs]

? `Siema`

Dowling, Richard

R? The Fate of Luke Ormerod

Drake, David & Allen, Roger MacBride

O The War Machine [Artificial Inteligence Devices AIDs]

Duane, Diane

C? Spock's World

Dunsany, Lord Edward (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of

Dunsany)

? The Last Revolution

Durham, Jim

? `F.O.D.`

Durrell, Lawrence

C Tunc

CR Nunquam

Easton, Thomas

R? `Breakfast of Champions`

Edmondson, G. C.

? The Cunningham Equations

Eisenberg, Larry

* R `The Fastest Draw` [Robot Cowboy]

Eklund, Gordon

R `Second Creation`

R `The Shrine of Sebastian`

Elder, M.

? Paradise is Not Enough

Ellis, Edward S.

R? The Steam Man of the Praries

Ellison, Harlan

CY `Catman`

C `I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream`

Endore, Guy

Y? `Men of Iron`

Escarpit, Robert

C The Novel Computer

Etchison, Dennis

A? `The Fires of Night`

Ewers, Hans Heinz

A? `Alraune`

Fairman, Paul W.

R? `Robots Should Stick Together`

R The Forgetful Robot

H I, The Machine

Farmer, Philip Jose

* C The Gods of Riverworld

* C The Magic Labyrinth

* O -last book of world of tiers- [evil machines in bells]

Farrere, Claude

R? Useless Hands

Fine, Stephen

A? Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android

Firbank, Arthure Annesley Roland

R? The Artificial Princess

Fischer, Michael

R? `Misfit`

Flagg, Francis (pseud.)

R `The Mentanicals`

Forest, Jean-Claude

R Barbarella

Forward, Robert

S? The Flight of the Dragonfly

Foster, Alan Dean

* A Alien [Ash]

* A Aliens [Bishop]

CO Dark Star [intelligent bomb]

R The Black Hole

C The Tar-Aiym Krang

Foster, E. M.

C? `The Machine Stops`

Franke, Herbert

R `The Man Who Feared Robots`

Frayn, Michael

Y? The Tin Men

Friborg, Albert Compton

? `Careless Love`

Fritch, Charles E.

A? `Greever's Flight`

Fyfe, H. B.

R? `Let There Be Light`

R? `The Well-Oiled Machine`

Gallun, Raymond Z.

R `Derelict`

? `Mind Over Matter`

? `The Scarab`

Galouye, Daniel

C? `Counterfeit World`

R? `The Reign of the Telepuppets`

Garfarth, John

R? `Lack of Experience`

Garrett, Randall Z.

S `A Spaceship Named McGuire`

* O `The Hunting Lodge` [house-computer]

A Unwise Child

Gault, William Campbell

R? `Made to Measure`

R `Title Fight`

Gawron, J. M.

? Algorithm

Gelula, Abner J.

R `Automaton`

George, Peter

? Two Hours to Doom

Gerrold, David

C? `Oracle for a White Rabbit` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

C `The God Machine` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

? A Day for Damnation

? A Matter for Men

RS Space Skimmer

C When Harlie Was One & release 2.0

Gibson, William

CHP Count Zero

CHP Mona Lisa Overdrive

CHP Neuromancer

Gilliland, Alexis

P Corporate Saskesh (includes the following three novels)

P Long Shot for Rosinante

P The Pirates of Rosinante

P The Revolution From Rosinante

Glut, Donald F.

* R The Empire Strikes Back

Glynn, A. A.

? Plan for Conquest

Gold, H. L.

R? `Problem in Murder`

Goldin, Stephen

Ce `Sweet Dreams, Melissa`

Goldstone, Herbert

R `Virtuoso`

Goulart, Ron

A? `Badinage`

R `Calling Dr. Clockwork`

? `Cybernetic Tabernacle Job`

R? `Dingbat`

A? `Gigilo`

R? `Muscadine`

R? `Nobody Starves`

R `Regarding Patient 724`

R? `What's Become of Screwloose?`

R? Clockwork's Pirates

* R Into the Shop [ai car]

R Suicide, Inc.

CR? The Emperor of the Last Days

Goy, Philip (pseud.)

C Le Livre Machine

Grant, Charles

A The Shadow of Alpha

Gravel, Geary

C? The Alchemist

Green, Joseph

C? `Space to Move`

Grey, Charles (pseud.)

Y? Enterprise 2115

Groves, J. W.

R `Robots Don't Bleed`

Gunn, James E.

A? `Little Orphan Android`

? `The Message`

Hadley, Arthur

? The Joy Wagon

Haig, A.

? The Peruvian Printout

Haldeman Joe

* Y `More than the Sum of his Parts`

Hamilton, Edmond

A? `After a Judgement Day`

Y `The Comet Doom`

CR `The Metal Giants`

R Captain Future

Harness, Charles

H? The Ring of Ritornel

Harris, John Benyon (John Wyndham)

R `Sleepers of Mars`

R `Stowaway to Mars`

Harrison, Harry

R `Arm of the Law`

? `Homeworld`

R? `How the Old World Died`

R `I Always Do What Teddy Says`

R? `I Have My Vigil`

? `I See You`

? `Make Room, Make Room`

? `Survival Planet`

* R? `The Man from R.O.B.O.T.`

* Y `The Powers of Observation`

? `The Repairman`

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

P? `The Simulated Trainer`

R `The Velvet Glove`

R `War With the Robots`

R? The Stainless Steel Rat

Hartridge, Jon

C Binary Divine

Heinlein, Robert Anson

? `Revolt in 2100`

C `That Dinkum Thinkum`

R Friday

CS The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

* Ce The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

S The Number of the Beast

CS Time Enough for Love

S To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Herbert, Frank

CM Destination: Void

Herbert, Frank and Ransom, Bill

C Jesus Incident

C Lazarus Effect

* C? The Ascension Factor

Hickey, H. B. (Herb Livingston)

R `Full Circle`

R? `Hilda`

High, Philip E.

? `The Mad Metropolis`

Highstone, H. A.

? `Frankenstein to Unlimited`

Hjortsberg, William

Y? Gray Matters

Hoch, Edward

C? The Transvection Machine

Hodder-Wiliams, Christopher

? 98.4

C Fistful of Digits

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

R? `Automaton`

R `The Sandman`

Hogan, James P.

Re Code of the Life Maker

CS Giant's Star

C? The Genesis Machine

S The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

Ce The Two Faces of Tomorrow

CR Voyage from Yesteryear

Holis, H. H.

? `Cybernia`

Holly, J. Hunter

R `The Graduated Robot`

Holmes, H. H. (Anthony Boucher)

AR `Q.U.R.`

AR `Robinic`

Horton, Forest W., Jr.

A The Technocrats

Hoyle, Fred and Elliot, John

C A for Andromeda

C Andromeda Breakthrough

Hubbard, L. Ron

R? `Tough Old Man`

Hughes, Ted

R? The Iron Man

Jackson, A. A. & Waldrop, Howard

R? `Sun Up`

Jacob, Sylvia

R `Slave to Man`

Jameson, Malcolm

? `Pride`

Jenkins, Will F. (Murray Leinster)

C `A Logic Named Joe`

Jerome, Jerome K.

R `The Dancing Partner`

Jeter, K. W.

R Infernal Devices

Johannesson, Olof (pseud.)

C The Great Computer (or _The Tale of the Big Computer_)

Jones, D. F.

C Colossus and the Crab

C Colossus: The Forbin Project

C The Fall of Colossus

Jones, Neil Ronald

Y `The Jameson Satellite`

Y Doomsday on Ajiat

Y Planet of the Double Sun

Y Sunless World

Y The Sunless World

Y Twin Worlds

Jones, Raymond F.

? `Rat Race`

R? `The Gift of the Gods`

Y? The Cybernetic Brains

Kagan, Janet

C Hellspark

Kahn, James

* AR Return of the Jedi

Kapp, Colin

R? `Gottlos`

Karlins, Marvin

? The Last Man Is Out

Kelleam, Joseph E.

R `Rust`

Keller, David H.

CY? `The Cerebral Library`

Y? `The Eternal Professors`

R `The Psychophonic Nurse`

R `The Threat of the Robot`

Key, Alexander

R Bolts, a Robot Dog

R Rivets and Sprockets

R Sprockets, a Little Robot

Keyes, Daniel

R `Robot Unwanted`

Kilian, Crawford

P? Brother Jonathan

Kingsley, Charles

? The Heroes (anth)

Kippax, John (John Hynam)

R `Friday`

Kleier, Joe

Y? `The Head`

Knight, Damon

H `Masks`

C Stranger Station

? The Metal Smile

Knootz, Dean R.

CR Demon Seed

? Midnight

Kornbluth, C. M.

R? `The Education of Tigress McCardle`

Y `With These Hands`

Krahn, Fernando

R Robot-bot-bot

Kuttner, Henry

A? `Android` or `As Those Among Us`

R? `Happy Ending`

? `Jesting Pilot`

R? `Piggy Bank`

R? `The Ego Machine`

R Robots Have No Tails (as Lewis Padgett)

R The Proud Robot

Kuttner, Henry and Moore, C. L.

R? `Two Handed Engine`

Lack, G. L.

? `Rogue Leonardo`

Lafferty, R. A.

* H `Eurema's Dam`

* O? `Hog Belly Honey` [strange machine]

C Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Lamont, Duncan (pseud)

C `Production Job`

Laumer, Keith

? `Dinosaur Beach`

Y? A Plague of Demons

O Bolo [self aware tanks]

O Rogue Bolo [self aware tanks]

C The Great Time Machine Hoax

Lee, Tanith

* H? Drinking Sapphire Wine

R The Silver Metal Lover

Leherman, Herb

O `Revolt of the Potato Picker` [field machine]

Leiber, Fritz

R? `The 64-Square Madhouse`

R `A Bad Day for Sales`

? `Answering Service`

R `The Mechanical Bride`

RY? The Silver Eggheads

Leiber, Justin

P? Beyond Humanity

Leinster, Murray (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

R? `Exploration Team`

? `The Wabbler`

? The Lost Spaceship

Lem, Stanislaw

R `In Hot Pursuit of Happines`

C `The Computer That Fought a Dragon`

R `The Hunt`

R `The Mask`

R `The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius`

R `The Seventh Sally`

? Mortal Engines

R Return From the Stars

C The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (or _Cyberiada_)

Oe The Invincible (or _Niezwyciezony_) [machines]

Leman, Grahame

? `Conversational Mode`

Leroux, Gaston

R The Machine to Kill (or _La Machine a assassiner_)

Lesser, Milton

A `"A" As in Android`

Levin, Ira

R The Stepford Wives

C This Perfect Day

Lewis, C. S.

R That Hideous Strength

Liddel, C. H. (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

A `Android`

Long, Frank Belknap

R `The Robot Empire`

R It Was the Day of the Robot

Longyear, Barry B.

AR Naked Came the Robot

C Sea of Glass

Loomis, Noel

A `The State vs Susan Quod`

Lowenkopf, Shelly

A? `The Addict`

Lucas, George

R Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Lymington, J.

C? Year Dot

Mackin, Edward

? `The Key to Chaos`

? `The Trouble of H.A.R.R.I.`

Maine, Charles Eric (Pseud)

C B.E.A.S.T.

Malec, Alexander

? `10:01`

Malzberg, Barry N.

C? `The Union Forever`

Y? The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Manning, Laurence

C `Master of the Brain`

R `The Call of the Mechmen`

MacApp, C. C.

? Omha Abides

Markham, Russ

R `The Third Law`

Martin, George R. R.

A `Modular Man`

? `The Last Superbowl Game`

Mason, Douglas R.

C Matrix

Matheson, Richard

R `Brother to the Machine`

A `Steel`

R? `The Doll that Does Everything`

Maxwell, Ann

C Timeshadow Rider

McCaffrey, Anne

Y `The Ship Who Mourned (in _The Whip Who Sang_)

Y `The Ship Who Sang (in _The Ship Who Sang_)

Y The Ship Who Sang

McCarty, E. Clayton

R `Robot 678`

McCollum, Michael

S Life Probe

S Procyon's Promise

MacDonald, John D.

R `The Mechanical Answer`

Mead, Shepherd

? The Big Ball of Wax

Meade, Malcome (pseud?)

R `Call him Colossus`

Melville, Herman

R? `The Bell Tower`

Meredith, Richard C.

H? We All Died at Breakaway Station

Merliss, R. R.

R `The Stutterer`

Merritt, Abraham

R `Rhythm of the Spheres`

Oe? The Metal Monster [inorganic alien]

MacFarlane, Wallace

A `Dead End`

McGowan, Tom

R Sir MacHinery

Milan, Victor

P Cybernetic Samurai

P? Cybernetic Shogun

Miller, Walter Michael, Jr.

A? `Blood Bank`

Y? `Crucifixus Etiam`

R `I Made You`

R `The Darfsteller`

McIntosh, J. T. (James J. MacGregor)

A `Almost Human`

? `Machine Mode`

A `Made in USA`

C? `Spanner in the Works`

A `The Deciding Factor`

R `The Saw and the Carpenter`

Mitchell, Edward Page

Y? `The Ablest Man in the World`

R `The Tachypomp`

McKinney, Jack

CR The Sentinels - 2nd Robotech collection (coll)

McLoed, Shiela

R Xanthe and the Robots

McLoughlin, John

S Toolmaker Koan

Molly, J. Hunter

R? `The Graduated Robot`

Monteleone, Thomas F.

? `Chicago`

Moorcock, Michael

C The Final Programme

? `Sea Wolves`

Moore, Catherine Lucile

Y `No Woman Born`

Moore, Harris

CH Slater's Planet

Moran, Daniel Keys

C? Armageddon Blues

CY? Emerald Eyes

CPY? The Long Run

Morris, Janet

S Cruiser Dreams

S Dream Dancer

S Earth Dreams

Nesvadba, Joseph

? `The Einstein Brain`

Niven, Larry

H `A Teardrop Falls`

Y `Becalmed in Hell`

Y `The Coldest Place`

HS A World Out of Time

CH Integral Trees

C The Schumann Computer

CH The Smoke Ring

Nolan, William F.

R? `and Miles to Go Before I Sleep`

R? `The Beautiful Doll Caper`

A? `The Joy of Living`

R? Logan's Run

Norton, Andre

A Android at Arms

O'Brien, Fitz-James

R? `The Wondersmith`

O'Conner, William Douglas

R The Brazen Android

O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr.

H Mayflies

Oliver, Chad

R? `Didn't He Ramble`

A? `The Life Game`

Oliver, J. T.

R `Teacher's Pet`

Padgett, Lewis (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

Y `Camouflage`

R? `Deadlock`

? `Ex Machine`

R `Open Secret`

R? `The Twonky`

Paul, Barbara

C? `Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"`

Perkins, Lawrence

? `Delivered with Feeling`

Perry, Roland

C? Program for a Puppet

Phillips, Alexander M.

R? `Beast of the Island`

Phillips, Peter

R? `At No Extra Cost`

A `Lost Memory`

Phillips, Rog (pseud.)

? `The Cyberene`

Pierce, John R.

? `See No Evil`

Piper, H. Beam

C Junkyard Planet (or _The Cosmic Computer_)

Pohl, Frederik

? `Day Million`

R `The Midas Plague`

? `The Schematic Man`

R? `The Tunnel Under the World`

* CP Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

* CP Gateway

* HP Heechee Rendezvous

CY Man Plus

C Starchild

? The Age of the Pussyfoot

* HP The Annals of the Heechee

Pragnell, Festus

C? `The Machine-God Laughs`

Preselie, Robert

R `The Champ`

Pychon, Thomas

R Gravity's Rainbow

Quick, W. T.

P? Systems

H? Yesterday's Dawn

Rackham, John

A? `Goodbye Dr. Gabriel`

Rayer, Francis G.

C `Deus Ex Machina`

C `The Peacemaker`

C? `Tomorrow Sometimes Comes`

Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve

C Dome

Resnick, Mike

Y Santiago

Reynolds, Mack

C? `Criminal in Utopia`

C Computer War

C? Computer World

Richardson, R. S.

R? `Kid Anderson`

Richmond, Walt and Leigh

? `I, Bem`

Riley, Frank

? `The Cyber and Justice Holmes`

Roberts, Keith

A `Synth`

Robinson, Spider

* ? Mindkiller

* ? Time Pressure

Roger, Noe"lle (pseud.)

N The New Adam (or _Le Nouvel Adam_) [manmade organic life]

Rohrer, Robert

R `Iron`

Roshwald, Mardecai

? Level 7

Rostler, William

R `Ship Me Tomorrow`

Rothmand, Milton A.

? `Getting Together`

Rucker, Rudy

CR Software

CR Wetware

Russ, Joanna

? `Nor Custom Stale`

Russell, Bertrand

Ce? `Dr. Southport Vulpres' Nightmare`

Russell, Eric Frank

R `Boomerang` or `A Great Deal of Power`

A `Jay Score`

Re? `Mechanistra`

R `Men, Martians and Machines`

R `Relic`

R? `Symbiotica`

Ryan, Thomas J.

P The Adolescence of P-1

Saberhagen, Fred

O `Fortress Ship` [berserkers]

O `Goodlife` / \

O `In the Temple of Mars` |

O `Inhuman Error` |

O `Masque of the Red Shift` |

O `Mr. Jester` |

O `Patron of the Arts` |

O `Pressure` |

O `Smasher` |

O `Some Events at the Templat Radiant` |

O `Starsong` |

O `Stone Place` |

O `The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron` |

O `The Game` |

O `The Peacemaker` |

O `The Sign of the Wolf` |

O `The Smile` |

O `What T and I Did` |

O `Wings Out of Shadow` |

O Berserker (coll) |

O Berserker Man |

O Berserker's Planet (coll) \ /

O Brother Assassin (coll) [Berserkers]

C Changeling Earth

C Empire of the East

O The Ultimate Enemy (coll)

Sandberg, Richard T.

C? `The Perfect Crime`

Saxton, Josehpine

R `Gordon's Women`

Schachner, Nat.

? `Robot Technocrat`

Schlossel, J.

R `To the Moon By Proxy`

Scortia, Thomas Nicholas

Y? `Sea Change`

A? `The Icebox Blond`

Seabright, Idris (Margaret St Clair)

R `Short in the Chest`

Sellings, Arthur

A `Starting Course`

R `The Template Teleologist`

Senarens, Luis

R? `Frank Reade and His New Steam Man`

Shaara, Michael

R `Soldier Boy`

? `2066: Election Day`

Shaw, Bob

? `Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party`

Sheckley, Robert

R `A Ticket ot Tranai`

R? `Alone at Last`

? `Ask a Foolish Question`

R `Beside Still Waters`

R `Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?`

A `Compton Divided`

C? `Fool's Mate`

R? `Human Man's Burden`

R `The Battle`

R `The Cruel Equations`

R? `The Lifeboat Mutiny`

R? `The Minimum Man`

* R `The Robot who Looked Liked Me`

R `Watchbird`

C Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Sheffield, Charles

? Trader's World

Sherman, Robert

Ce `Problem for Emmy`

Sherred, T. L.

? `"E" for Effort`

Silverberg, Robert

R? `Company Store`

? `Getting Across`

C `Going Down Smooth`

CR `Good News from the Vatican`

R `Ozymandias`

S? `Ship-Sister, Star-Sister`

R `The Iron Chancellor`

R? `The Macauley Circuit`

R Across a Billion Years

H? Time Gate

H To Live Again

AR? Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford Donald

* R? `Aesop` (in City)

R? `All the Traps of Earth`

* R `City` (in City)

R `Earth for Inspiration`

* R `Epilog` (in City)

* R `Hobbies` (in City)

R `How-2`

* R `Huddling Place` (in City)

R `I Am Crying All Inside`

? `Limiting Factor`

? `Lulu`

R `Skirmish` or `Bathe Your Bearing in Blood`

C? `Univac: 2200`

R A Choice of Gods

* OR City (coll) [dogs]

R Cosmic Engineers

R? Destiny Doll

R Project Pope

S Shakespeare's Planet

R Special Deliverance

A? Time and Again (or _First He Died_)

Simmons, Dan

PR? Hyperion

? The Fall of Hyperion

Sky, Kathleen

A? `Birthright`

Sladek, John T.

Ce Mechasm (or _The Reproductive System_)

R Roderick

R Roderick at Random

R Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine

H The Mueller-Fokker Effect (or _The Muller Focker Effect_)

? Tik-Tok

Slesar, Harry

R `Brother Robot`

Slote, Alfred

A My Robot Buddy

* A C.O.L.A.R.

Smith, Cordwainer (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)

C `Alpha Ralpha Boulevard`

R `Mark Elf` or `Mark XI`

* Y? `Scanners Live in Vain`

* C `The Ballad of Lost C'Mell`

R `The Dead Lady of Clown Town`

Y `Three to a Given Star`

C Norstrilia (_The Planet Buyer_ & _The Underpeople_)

C The Planet Buyer

Smith, E. E. "Doc"

R `Robot Nemesis`

Smith, George H.

R? `Too Robot to Marry`

Smith, George O.

? `Counter Foil`

? The Brain Machine

Stableford, Brian Michael

? The Walking Shadow

Stapledon, William Olaf

Oe Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord [dogs]

Stasheff, Christopher

SR Escape Velocity

R King Kobold Revived

R The Warlock Enraged

R The Warlock Heretical

R The Warlock Insane

SR The Warlock in Spite of Himself

R The Warlock is Missing

R The Warlock Unlocked

R The Warlock Wandering

R The Warlock's Companion

Statton, Vargo (John Russel Fearn)

R Cataclysm

Stine, G. Harry

Y? Warbots: Operation High Dragon /5

Y? Warbots: The Lost Battalion /6

StJohn, Philip (Lester del Rey)

R `The Last True God`

Strike, Jeremy

C A Promising Planet

Stuart, Don A. (John W. Campbell, Jr.)

R `Night`

C `The Machine`

R `Twilight`

Sturgeon, Theodore

R? `Killdozer`

? `Agnes, Accent, and Access`

A `The Golden Egg`

* O More than Human [gestalt mind]

Swanwick, Michael

* P? Vacuum Flowers

Tall, Stephen

R? `This is My Country`

Temple, William

R? The Automated Goliath

Tenn, William (Philip Klass)

R? `Child's Play`

A? `Down Among the Dead Men`

? `The House Dutiful`

R `The Jester`

R? `Wednesday's Child`

Tevis, Walter

R Mockingbird

Thomas, Dan

C? The Seed

Todd, Larry

R `Flesh and the Iron`

Todd, Lawrence

R `The Warbots`

Townes, Robert Sherman

? `Problem for Emmy`

Tremaine, F. Orlin

R `True Confession`

Tubb, E. C.

A `A Captain's Dog`

R `Logic`

C `Moon Base`

Turner, George

Y Beloved Son

Vance, Gerald

? We, The Machine

Vance, Jack

Y? `I-C-a-BEM`

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

R `Automaton`

R `Final Command`

C? `Fulfillment`

A All the Loving Androids

CR Computerworld

? Mission to the Stars

C The Infinite Machine

C? The Players of Null A [cloning]

C The World of Null A [cloning]

Varley, John

* H? `Overdrawn at the Memory Bank`

* P `Press Enter`

C Millenium

Varshavsky, Ilya

R `Homonculus`

Vincent, Harl

R `Rex`

Vinge, Joan D.

H? `Fireship`

Vinge, Vernor

S? `Long Shot`

? `The Accomplice`

Pe `True Names`

P The Peace War

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

C `EPICAC`

Y? `Fortitude`

C Player Piano

R The Sirens of Titan

Wallace, F. L.

R `Seasoned Traveller`

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

S The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

S The Wizard and the War Machine

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

R? `The Ideal`

Wellen, Edward

A `Androids Don't Cry`

* C `Finger of Fate`

? `No Other Gods`

A `Voiceover`

Wells, H. G.

R? `When the Sleeper Wakes`

West, Wallace

A `Sculptors of Life`

White, E. B.

R? `The hour of Letdown`

White, James

R `Second Ending`

White, Ted

A Android Avenger & the Spawn of the Death Machine

Wilding, Eric (pseud)

Y `Deathwish`

Wilhelm, Kate

A `Andover and the Android`

Y `Windsong`

Willer, Jim

C Paramind

Williams, Robert Moore

R `Robot's Return`

R `The Metal Martyr`

Williams, Waltehr Jon

CH Hardwired

Williamson, Jack

R? `After Worlds End`

R `And Searching Mind`

R? `Guinevere for Everybody`

R `With Folded Hands`

Y? Lifeburst

R The Humanoid Touch

CR The Humanoids

Wodhams, Jack

? `Sprog`

Wolfe, Bernard

Y? `Self Portrait`

Y? Limbo

Wolfe, Gene

C? `Alien Stones`

* H? `The Fifth Head of Cerberus`

Woods, W. C.

C Killing Zone

Wright, S. Flower

R `Automata`

Wylde, Thomas

* ? Clypsis

H? Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway

Wyndham, John (John Lucas Benyon William Harris)

R `Compassion Circuit`

R? `The Lost Machine`

Young, Michael

? The Rise of Meritocracy

Young, Robert F.

R? `Emily and the Bands Sublime`

A? `Juke Doll` or `Doll Friend`

R `Robot Son`

R `September Had Thirty Days`

Zamiatin, Eugene

C? We

Zebrowski, George

SY? `Starcrossed`

Zelazny, Roger

O `Devil Car` [ai car]

R `For a Breath I Tarry`

R `Home Is the Hangman`

O `Itself Surprised` [Berserkers]

O `Last of the Wild Ones` [ai car]

C `Leaves of Grass`

C `Loki 7281`

C `My Lady of the Diodes`

H `Permafrost`

C Blood of Amber

Y Creatures of Light and Darkness

O Doorways in the Sand [ai recording unit, invades host's body]

OR Roadmarks [ai book]

C Sign of Chaos

C The Trumps of Doom

Zelazny, Roger & Saberhagen, Fred

CH Coils

Zebrowski, George

? `Starcrossed`

Zebrowski, George and Carrington, Grant

? `Fountain of Force`

I need more information about any of the above with a query mark under the AI type field, as well as about the following.

`The Floating World` in _Asimov's_

a series of stories about Willie Shorts

Connie Willis' _Fire Watch_ AI's

Doomstar by Perry and Reeves

Forbidden Planet; Robbie the Robot; author?

Holly in "Red Dwarf"

The (A) containing Callahan stories by Spider Robinson

The Purgatory Computer, Piers Anthony

* The rest of Stine's _Warbots_ series

Warren Norwood's Ship/computer book

removed from the list:

Anderson Poul - `Sam Hall`

Asimov, Isaac - `The Dead Past`

Bellamy, Edward - `Looking Backward`

Brunner, John - The Shockwave Rider

Caidin, Martin - Cyborg (or The Six Million Dollar Man)

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Children (Xenocide) as yet unpublished

Clarke, Arthur C. - `The Nine Billion Names of God`

Crichton, Michael - Sphere

Elliot, Bob et al. - `The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter`

Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber - The Lathe of Heaven

Lee, Tanith - The Eletric Forest

Miller, Walter M., Jr. - `Dumb Waiter`

McIntyre, Vonda N. - `The Genius Freaks`

Oliver, Chad - `Transformer`

Sturgeon, Theodore - `The Macrocosmic God`

Tiptree, James R. - `The Girl Who Was Plugged In`

Zelzany, Roger - My Name is Legion

Things not included:

Dr. Who stuff (K-9, Daliks, Cybermen)

ST:TNG stuff (Mr. Data)

expanded definitions:

All of the following should be able to pass the Turing test, and should be/have been (at the minimum in their original forms) products of human or alien intelligence. "Standard" definitions of intelligence apply.

androids (A) - robots in humanoid form, these can be mechanical and/or organic (_Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep_).

computer systems (C) - these range in size and type from a fair sized mini computer (_Ariel_) to an planetary

computer (_Colossus_) to a galactic network with one single mind (_Speaker for the Dead_).

humans in computerized/program/digitized form (H) - these tend to be copies of people which only exist in computerized form - such as the hacker in (_Neuromancer_) and folks of City Memory in (_Eon_).

non-mechanical, human created intelligences (N) - beings which have been (in most cases) genetically altered or are biological (_Blood Music_). NOT forced evolution

other intelligences (O) - beings which are difficult to categorize: anything Berserker, tanks, books, planets, planets (Asimov's Gaia), satellites, etc. Where (O) is used, the particular form has also been named when known.

programs (P) - able to move independently from one computer system to another, usually created by a program(mer) _The Adolescence or P1_).

robots (R) - constitute functional and specialized beings which are mobile and are not (S) or (P). Anything between vaguely humanoid (Dr. Who's Cybermen) and computers on wheels (R2D2) can be considered robots of the 'functional' robot class. 'Specialized' robots are those which are geared/optimized to performing one job - they can look like either androids (The Terminator) or functional robots (Val's from _Pirates of the Thunder_).

ships/computer systems (S) - essentially an (A) which is only mobile in the form of a (star) ship (_Pirates of the Thunder_). However, there are cases where the (S) is essentially a well programmed (R) which is only mobile as stated (_The Number of the Beast_).

cyborgs/mechanical humans (Y) - strictly speaking these are not AI. The definition here is that the (Y) is either (1) a human brain in control of a computer system/star ship (_The Ship Who Sang_) where at the very least the person's brain has been modified to contain computerized parts (_The Rapture Effect?_) (Did you ever wish that you could have a math co-processor?). (Y)'s are NOT (for the purpose of this list) organic beings whose natural body parts have beenreplaced by mechanical ones (ie. Luke Skywalker after his forearm was severed, or bionic people). unsure/no idea (?) - just what it says, so someone PLEASE read it and tell me what type is is and whether it belongs here.

evolved AI being (e) - usually begin as man-made devices hich then develop intelligence on their own (_Valentina_).

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strange connection - chap 2

Chap 2! First part can be read [here].

Can also be read in AO3 e FFNET.

Chapter 2 - waves

When Tashigi called again, the field mission had been complicated as usual, but with a different result. She had won, she had been able to protect civilians successfully and the pride she felt of herself filled her chest to the point of overflowing. On those days, she even goes out to celebrate with the crew.

But she was stupidly surprised and furious that a certain green-haired man was the first thing that came to her mind.

Surprised because it was Roronoa Zoro. Furious because it was Roronoa Zoro.

But... I wanted to tell him that I won.

So, instead of going out to celebrate the victory, she decided to go back to the base, take a relaxing bath and… who knows, maybe not be annoyed by the infamous pirate.

However, when they finally answered on the other end of the line, she didn't expect Nico Robin's voice.

"Hello, Captain Tashigi. What can I do for you?", the pirate's calm voice still made her feel shivers down her spine since the confrontation at Alabasta.

"N-Nico R-robin! I-I-I just called-"

"To talk to our swordsman?"

The captain suddenly shut up.

Great. Give your feelings in a silver platter to the clever Nico Robin, Tashigi.

"I'll take the silence as a yes. He's not here at the moment. The den den mushi is always at the little table next to his bed, so when he comes back from the shower, he can call you back. Want to leave a message?"

Tashigi heard no malice in the archaeologist's voice and she seemed genuinely solicitous. But Tashigi was surprised to feel genuinely uncomfortable. "Y-Y-You-are in his b-bed?"

"If you stutter more than that, I won't be able to understand you, Captain. But yes, I am. Do you have any problem?"

"N-n-no!!", Tashigi got a little more worked up than she should have.

I don't know.

"Fufufu. Anyway, I'll have to go now, Captain-san, but I'll let him know. Have a good night!"

Maybe I won't have it anymore.

"R-Right! G-Good n-night!"

Tashigi hung up, but continued to stare at the den den mushi as if he could miraculously explain what she was feeling. Because the captain herself had no idea.

Nico Robin in the boys' room.

Nico Robin near the den den mushi that was in the hands of Roronoa.

In Roronoa's bed.

What… can that possibly mean?

Tashigi was convinced that Zoro wouldn't return the call, because, during these past few months, the girl had been the one who initiated any interaction since every week she contacted the crew in order to take the den den mushi back. But deep down… the snail was no longer the main reason.

In the first few weeks, she could easily recite, without stuttering or thinking twice, the reasons why she would call week after week. But over time, Roronoa's baritone voice became a sweet lullaby every time they spoke and Tashigi always slept very well on those nights, but until now she still couldn't understand why.

The only thing that Tashigi was able to realize was the fact that, in the vast majority of situations, she is able to remain calm in the same way that peaceful waves crash in the ocean on a sunny day. But when his voice answers on the other side, for some reason, the waves seem to become uncontrollable and unpredictable.

The captain had also talked to most of the Sunny's crew - Nami, Sanji, the cutest reindeer of all the seas, even Luffy (she remembers that it was one of the funniest conversations she had in her life since the boy didn't have a serious bone in his body) and every time, the waves remained calm.

Perhaps the water has been static because all these times, these people on the other end were never in his bed.

This is none of your concern, Tashigi. Just forget it.

But she couldn't because the girl kept going through all the conversations she had with Zoro through den den mushi until then. There weren't many of them to the point that Tashigi could say she knew him very well as if they were longtime friends, but in general, they were… good. Occasionally, Zoro would offer pieces of his thoughts and Tashigi always imagined that these conversations were like small wrapped papers spread on a table. Depending on the subject or the mood, he would open a random one and share it with her.

However, it wasn't always like that. Initially, the two would just fight with each other through the snail...

"How the hell do you have such a bad sense of direction, Roronoa? You are so clueless!!"

"Haaaa? And you're a pain in the ass, woman!!",

Or calling each other stupid names ...

"You sword nerd!!"

"Marimo."

"HAAA? REPEAT THAT, FOUR-EYES!!"

...or competing for the most foolish things.

"I am sure that if I throw you in a maze, you will die there because you will never be able to find your way out!!"

"Whaat?? You insufferable, are you challenging me??"

"My God, you are so thick-headed."

Until one day, when she passed by Zoro's wanted poster, she had a huge urge to know where he was and what he could be doing. It was so incredibly sudden that Tashigi thought she had been hit by a bolt of lightning because of the shock that ran from her hair to the tip of her toes.

She stopped dead on her tracks. Her heart sped up without warning.

Maybe he was… kicking Sanji? Calling Nami a witch? Giving attention to Chopper? Training? Drinking sake? Sleeping?

Thinking about her?

No. Impossible. He has said over and over that he hates me.

Even though she knew that, she called him at night on the pretext of trying, once again, to persuade them to return the snail. Zoro just laughed smugly and said no, Tashigi snorted, but after a certain silence, the swordsman asked how her hunts for the Meito swords were going. She was astonished because, judging by the complicated relationship they have, the captain thought the swordsman would have already erased any relevant information about her from his mind. Especially a lost memory at a sword store in Loguetown.

Although he realized that my rank has changed.

But after the astonishment passed, she happily told about some successful operations.

That day, they talked until midnight. That day, she realized that something about her had changed.

Since then, Tashigi seemed to be always living inside her own mind, always replaying that night. The conversation, his voice calm and low, an almost silent laugh that didn't seem pretentious at all. She was constantly thinking about how, at least for that short time, their relationship seemed to be more friendly.

And how she had liked that.

プルルル purururu

She almost threw the den den mushi on the floor when it ringed.

"H-Hello?"

"Oe, madam cap'n. Robin said you called…"

She thought she was either imagining things or he was talking to someone close because she heard a whisper that sounded a lot like "after two months...".

Two months. Sixty-one days and twenty-two hours (it was coming to sixty-two days now). She knew it was two months because she counted every day and fought against herself to not call. It's impossible that Roronoa Zoro would have bothered to count too.

Impossible. He must be talking to someone else.

"A-Ah y-y-yes. Y-Yeah."

"Why the hell are you stuttering so much?"

"F-For n-nothing!!"

"Something happened because you're really stuttering."

"I already said it's nothing, damn it!!"

"Great, you stopped. So what do you want?"

She wasn't going to lie that she was surprised that he pissed her off just so she would stop stuttering. Annoying each other is something that came naturally due to the eccentricity of their relationship, but knowing that doing that could also be used for another purpose like getting her to stop stuttering?

And why the hell did she stutter so much?

Tashigi was stunned for a few seconds and thought about it in silence.

"Four eyes?"

His voice seemed to awaken her from any spiral of thoughts she was having and she remembered why she called. And, just for now, she would let herself be taken once again by the illusion of companionship between them.

"I won today."

"Congratulations.", Zoro simply replied.

"You don't even know what I'm talking about, you blockhead."

"Yes, I do know."

How? How do you know?

For some reason, the two had this strange connection that was completely inexplicable and Zoro usually managed to understand it somehow. Tashigi always found it very curious because… what could that mean? Maybe they were always doomed to know each other? A connection between rivals? A connection from friends in another life?

Or maybe... a connection in the form of a very imperceptible red line tied to her pinky?

Yeah, right. Don't be stupid, Tashigi, she thought.

Anyway, she always forced herself to never think about it because he most certainly did not.

"Why did you call that night?"

Once again. The inexplicable connection. She knew what night he was referring to because she thought about it every day and, for a second, she thought about denying it and saying she didn't know what he was talking about. But as she couldn't explain the connection and she knew he would be able to pinpoint the lie the moment it'd leave her mouth, so there was no reason to run. If she is going to live this false camaraderie just for today, then what is wrong with speaking the truth?

An illusion. Only for today. Don't stutter.

"Because I lost and wanted to talk to someone."

"And you called me.", Zoro didn't ask, he just spoke as a matter of fact.

"Yes. I usually… don't have many people to talk to, so I thought you could listen to me. At least once... without caring about the issue of navy and pirates. But... it's completely wrong and silly of me. I mean, I'm a marine and I shouldn't-"

"You didn't call for two months.", Zoro totally ignored Tashigi's last words.

So he had actually whispered that, but... either he read her thoughts or the snail had some way of seeing the last call. It's not possible that he had counted the days and weeks. How did he know then?

Lie. Lie. Lie.

Don't say it was because of him.

"Ah yes. I was busy working on the G-5 and after Smoker-san found out, we ended up leaving the den den mushi with you guys once and for all, so I didn't have to call-"

"Liar.", Zoro cut her off once again.

"Liar?! I'm not a liar, you madcap!", Tashigi was already snorting with the pirate's audacity. It was amazing how easily he managed to get her worked up.

"Liar."

"Roronoa-!"

"If you're going to keep lying, I'll hang up."

"Then hang up! I don’t care!"

"Fine."

"Fine!"

Why couldn't she be honest with him? Why couldn't she act right around him? Maybe… because she didn't want him to think she was weaker than he already does? Because she didn't want him to have an advantage over her in any way? Because she didn't want him to find out that his opinion has become important to her?

Give in just once, Tashigi.

Then she swallowed her embarrassment and pride and answered in an almost inaudible voice.

"I don't like being a nuisance. I never liked. But anyway... what difference does it make whether I called or not?"

"Haa? Wasn't you who said you would be my conscience since I told you about my fight against Mihawk?

"Yes, but because that was stupidly stupid!! I still can't believe you were stupid to that extent. I honestly can't understand how your crew lets you do these stupid things.", Tashigi exclaimed once more. Yeah, it looks like Zoro was really skilled at getting her to act that way.

"Oee, there were many 'stupid' there!!"

"Anyway. It's not like you need me for something, so it makes no difference."

"But you called today. So… does that mean it's you who needs me?", Zoro replied in the blink of an eye and his deep tone momentarily stunned Tashigi.

Silence.

She could almost see his cocky grin as if he himself was in front of her. She could hear her own heart beating frantically.

Perhaps.

"W-W-what ?? W-What are y-you talking about???!!!"

Tashigi knew that he had no way of seeing her through the den den mushi, but the action of hiding her completely red face with her arms was totally involuntary. Zoro just laughed out loud and she could hear Sanji's voice in the background (“Oe shitty marimo, shut up! Hey… are you talking to Tashigi-chan?!? You bastard, let me talk to her!!”).

"You're always so uptight. I'm just kidding, four-eyes."

But somehow... you nailed it.

She couldn't speak anymore because, apparently, Sanji had decided to take the den den mushi from Zoro's hand and now the two were fighting. In the midst of so much insult, Tashigi could make out just a few sentences - the cook asked how she was doing, how the children were doing and the swordsman shouted at him telling him to leave because “she called to talk to me and not the pervert of this crew!”. Soon, Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp joined the chorus and everything became a mess.

She just laughed and calmly called the cook.

"Sanji-san."

"Yeeees, Tashigi-chaaan!?"

"I will hang up soon. Can I say one last thing to Roronoa?"

She heard Zoro mocking Sanji, but couldn't understand what it was. Tashigi laughed softly because she always thought their relationship was funny and was always impressed to see Zoro so free when they argued. Nami said that the cook was one of the few able to get on the swordsman's nerve, but that Tashigi was not far behind.

In the end, Sanji accepted, cursed Zoro once more and said goodbye to her. Apparently, the others did the same - all saying good night to the captain. And with the cook's departure, the silence returned. It was an old friend of theirs - at times it was suffocating and unbearable, but at times it was welcoming.

"Sorry for the mess."

"It's okay."

A heartbeat. Tashigi decided to muster courage. She couldn't sleep with that question stuck in her throat.

"Roronoa."

"Hm?"

"Why was Robin-san in your bed earlier?", she asked on an impulse but regretted it right after. What kind of question was that, Tashigi??

"What?? What kind of question is that??"

"I just wanted to know."

"Don't you think you wanna know too much?", Zoro sounded really uncomfortable.

"Right. Forgive me.", she knew she shouldn't have asked that because it was none of her business, but she couldn't help it. Robin's voice and Roronoa's bed echoed in her head over and over until he called. The waves were very violent in that short time.

Then she forced herself to remember the reason for the call. "Roronoa."

"What."

"I'll get stronger.", Tashigi spoke with determination because giving up was not in her nature.

"I'm waiting for that.", and Zoro replied as if he understood the meaning behind her stern voice.

"Thanks and good night."

"Yeah. You too."

Tashigi did not call for the next two weeks because it was only now that she began to have a vague idea of what had changed since the day they talked until midnight.

The legend of The Red Thread of Fate says that everyone is born with a red thread tied to his finger that would be linked to someone else.

I really think it applies to Zoro and Tashigi - something that may have to do with destiny, whether they believe it or not. :)

#roronoa zoro #tashigi #zoro x tashigi #zotash #opfanfic #fanfiction

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lunnamars · 4 years

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estranha conexão - cap 1

E lá vou eu mais uma vez na minha jornada de aprender a escrever com mais uma historinha zotash. :) Uma observação importante é que eu cito sobre o den den mushi que Tashigi entregou para Zoro na DLC The Void Mirror Prototype do jogo One Piece: World Seeker. Por sinal, se você não viu as interações desses dois nessa DLC, por favor, vá. É basicamente uma fanfic em formato de videogame! Tem um vídeo no youtube que reune as cenas dos dois juntos. Mais uma vez: tudo se passa após Punk Hazard, mas sem relação com nenhum arco canônico. E disclaimer nosso de todo dia: obviamente, eu não sou dona de nada no One Piece porque se fosse, Luffy e Nami já estariam juntos, assim como Zoro e Tashigi. Então, pois é.

Também pode ser lido no FFNET e AO3.

Capítulo 1 - den den mushi

プルルル purururu

- O que você quer, quatro-olhos?

Roronoa Zoro respondeu com uma voz de poucos amigos. Ele não parecia estar adormecido, então ela não deve tê-lo atrapalhado. Talvez ele não quisesse falar com ela? Bom, as chances eram altas. O espadachim sempre pareceu desprezá-la. Mas, de forma similar, ela nunca fez questão de mostrar seu melhor lado.

Eu não sei. Acho que só queria conversar com alguém, ela pensou.

- Por que você decidiu virar um pirata?

Tashigi conseguiu perceber um pouco de hesitação no silêncio repentino dele. Primeiramente, ela tinha certeza que ele não esperava uma ligação no meio da noite; segundamente, não esperava que fosse uma ligação vindo dela e por último, não esperava essa pergunta. Mas depois do dia horrível que teve, ela não estava dando a mínima.

E não é como se ele desse a mínima também.

Desde quando ela entregou esse den den mushi nas mãos de Zoro enquanto investigavam KAGERO, a garota tem tentado recuperá-lo desesperadamente e quem sabe com isso, descobrir o local onde o bando se encontrava. Então essas ligações meio inesperadas viraram uma certa rotina entre eles durante esse tempo.

Smoker nem sonhava que ela havia entregue esse caramujo de comunicação e Tashigi esperava que continuasse assim. Já faziam dois meses que isso tinha acontecido e até agora todas suas tentativas não foram bem sucedidas - os Chapéu de Palha se recusavam a devolver e sempre davam um jeito de despistá-la.

Mas a única coisa que ela não esperava era que o caramujo fosse ficar em posse do espadachim Roronoa Zoro.

Tashigi acredita que isso só podia ter sido ideia de Nami. Zoro não parecia uma pessoa que gostaria de ter um den den mushi perto de si e muito menos parecia alguém que gostaria de conversar com ela. Nami sempre gosta de perturbar Roronoa e não teria forma melhor, ela pensou. Da última vez que se encontraram, por algum motivo, Nami e Nico Robin armaram para que o pirata ficasse perto dela a noite inteira durante uma celebração que a lembrou muito a que ocorreu em Punk Hazard.

A situação era quase a mesma novamente.

Piratas salvando o dia. A Marinha sempre um passo atrás. O bando dos Chapéu de Palha vitoriosos mais uma vez. E Tashigi não sabia mais o que fazer com eles. No fundo, ela sabia que nem Smoker tinha qualquer ideia do que fazer.

Monkey D. Luffy bagunçou com todo o conceito que o mundo (e ela também) tinha sobre piratas e suas vilanias. E consequentemente, Roronoa Zoro bagunçou com todo o conceito que ela tinha sobre justiça e liberdade.

Então, hoje só queria conversar como Tashigi e Roronoa.

Tashigi passou o dia todo evitando esse pensamento a todo custo e tentou se convencer que ele era a única pessoa que talvez estivesse disponível porque… tinha sido um dia muito ruim. E sendo bem sincera, Tashigi não tinha muitas pessoas para chamar de amigo.

Então, que mal faria ela ser egoísta só hoje?

- Por Luffy.

O rapaz respondeu depois de um certo tempo em silêncio. A resposta foi curta e firme, não deixando espaço para nenhum tipo de indagação. Mas indagar foi o que ela fez.

- Mugiwara?

- Sim. Olha, capitã quatro-olhos, eu não tenho esse seu senso louco de justiça e todo esse seu preconceito. As coisas não são sempre preto no branco pra mim, mulher. Luffy salvou minha vida e me deu a chance de alcançar meu objetivo. Em troca eu me juntaria a ele. Simples assim.

Senso louco de justiça e preconceito, hã…

- Mas você caçava piratas…

- Sim. Mas Luffy não é qualquer pirata. Eu sei que você sabe disso. Até o fumacento sabe disso. A Marinha gosta de nos caçar e eu entendo o porque, mas você precisa tirar da sua cabeça que todos são iguais. Eu tenho certeza que fizemos muito mais pelas pessoas em um ano do que a Marinha fez em cinco.

Tashigi queria gritar com ele. Queria esbravejar e cuspir em sua cara o quanto ele estava errado, o quanto estava sendo injusto, o quão preconceituoso ele estava igualmente sendo, mas nenhum som saiu.

Porque ele está certo.

Porque ela viveu a vida enxergando preto no branco. E a traição de Vergo simplesmente manchou o papel que representava sua consciência.

Só que… o que diabos ela vem fazendo? O quão fraca ainda está a ponto de ter que depender de um grupo de desajustados para resolverem efetivamente problemas que a Marinha tem tentado solucionar há anos? O quanto esse bando ainda iria esfregar na cara dela que ela não estava sendo capaz de fazer seu trabalho de forma correta?

Ela queria gritar com ele. Queria gritar com todos. Queria gritar com almirantes, vice-almirantes, marinheiros e afins. Queria gritar com ela mesma e perguntar por que é tão fraca por que é tão fraca por que é tão fraca.

"Os fracos não podem escolher a forma como querem morrer".

As palavras de Trafalgar Law ainda doíam nela até o momento. Doíam muito. Doía a verdade que ela não era párea para ele. Doía a verdade que ela não era párea para Zoro. Doía a verdade de que se fosse necessário batalhar contra algum do dois para salvar alguma vida inocente, ela seria derrotada e essa vida poderia ser perdida. Doía a verdade de que ela era fraca.

Mas essa dor nunca impediu Tashigi de seguir em frente e sempre se esforçar até exaustão. Ninguém sabia o quanto ela treinava, o quanto estudava, o quanto de tempo dedicava ao seu próprio aperfeiçoamento. Assim como ninguém sabia o quanto ela chorava toda vez que não era capaz de vencer.

O quanto chorava toda vez que cruzava lâminas com Roronoa Zoro e perdia.

Sempre perdendo.

- Eu sei. Vocês são… diferentes. Eu… sempre soube. Desde Alabasta.

- Enfim. Você ligou só pra perguntar isso, mulher? Se não, já aviso que não vamos devolver o caramujo. A bruxa disse que era uma boa manter já que não temos um.

- Não liguei pra cobrar. Eu… só precisava conversar com alguém.

- Haa? E essa pessoa tinha que ser justamente eu? Num tinha ninguém mais?

Claro... que bobagem da minha parte. Ninguém quer ouvir você, Tashigi.

- Entendo. Sinto muito, Roronoa. Não queria incomodar. - A garota deu uma risada sem graça e continuou. - Ligarei novamente outro dia para tentar convencê-los mais uma vez a me devolver! Até mais!

- O-oe…

- Boa noite.

Ela não esperou por uma resposta dele e desligou. Zoro também não retornou a ligação, o que confirmou as suspeitas dela. Ela realmente tinha o incomodado.

Eu só queria conversar um pouco…

Mais um dia em missão e mais um fracasso para a coleção da capitã. Outro confronto com piratas que resultou em tragédia e mais um dia de merda para ela. O sentimento de impotência é um dos piores, especialmente se tende a ser culpa sua.

Tashigi sabe que sempre vai levantar do chão toda vez que cair, mas tem vezes que ela acha incrivelmente difícil. E nessas horas ela queria poder ter alguém a quem recorrer, mas… não é o caso. Ou talvez ela tenha recorrido a pessoa errada.

Por que recorrer a Roronoa Zoro de todas as pessoas?

Ela não ligou mais por dois meses.

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