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"I identify with the weak person; this is one reason why my fictional protagonists are essentially antiheroes."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Pry-Vie (Robotic Detective) | ||
| A robotic private eye; autonomic detection services. |
To pronounce it, just say "private eye" to yourself.
| He felt fright, and an increased sense of failure; he had not even been able to pull off this - find a conapt in which to live where Mary couldn't locate him...
It was easy to see how she had traced him; modern detection devices were available and cheap. Mary had probably gone to a pry-vie, a robot detection agency, obtained the use of a sniffer, presented it his cephalic pattern; it had gone to work, following him to every place he had been since leaving her. Nowadays, finding someone was an exact science. |
| Technovelgy from Clans of the Alphane Moon,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1964 Additional resources -
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I can think of a few other robotic detectives; consider the undercover detective robot from Harry Harrison's 1956 story The Velvet Glove and, of course, R. Daneel Olviwaw from Caves of Steel, a 1953 story by Isaac Asimov. Also, see Sven, the artificially intelligent detective from The Turing Option (1992) by Harry Harrison.
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