Re: Seeking titles for half-remembered stories

Rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tina Hall wrote:
>> Rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Do tell me more about those wererobot stories.

> Um. Aside from an episode of _Futurama_, and one or two of Isaac
> Asimov's where robots act funny under certain circumstances (but
> rarely full moon), I know there is an extremely brief tale "The
> Great Dormitory Mystery" by S. N. Farber, featured in Asimov's
> collection _Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space_. I make it
> briefer:

> "Have you observed," the Great Detective replied, "that the
> tragic events coincided with a full moon? I believe we are
> dealing with that unhappy curse of modern technological society -
> the descendant of the werewolf, the weremobile."

> Five gallons of gas dsiappeared in Room 440, which was occupied
> by a Japanese-American student named Nagawa. "He's drinking it!"

> "When the moon is full, you become an automobile, and you ran
> over your fellow students on the fourth floor."

> "But how did you know?" gasped Nagawa.

> "Alimentary, my were-Datsun."

Heh. Neat.

People turning into machines didn't even enter my mind. I just thought
of robots turning into werewolves at full moon... Of course, robots
turning into those remote controlled toy-dogs at full moon (running amok
without any remote control in this case) would make more sense.

I always thought "Friedhof der Kuscheltiere" (translates as "Graveyard
of the soft-toy-animals" or something) featured amok stuffed toys, but
the bit I saw some time ago was just about real (dead) animals and
people going Zombie after being buried there. (I could, of course,
misremember the title of the film I saw some time ago. It was rather
lame and didn't meet the reputation of the film with the mentioned
title.)

>>> we're still waiting for domestic talking general-purpose
>>> robots...
>>
>> Can wererobots be domesticated, like dogs?

> I wouldn't recommend it! They'll always feel the call of the
> wild.

And that's littered with enough discarded tins and cans already. You're
right.

>> How many stories _are_ there about were-ism involving mundane
>> dogs?

> I dunno about dogs, but Peter David's _Howling Mad_ features a
> wolf bitten by a werewolf. Warning: adult scenes. And very
> bloody violence.

Sounds interesting.

>> With all the "Find your type of foo" questionaries in the
>> interenet, isn't there one what kind of were you'd end up as?

> Not "one", no...
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22what+kind+of+werewolf+a
> re+you%22 ;-)

Thanks. Will definitely look at that.

(It's also helpful on how to search, even! Would never have considered
to phrase it that way.)

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Tina
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