Automaton

Penny Arcade just started a really neat Automaton story. As before, it’s largely about Carl, an automaton living in 1927 America, with the Issue of racial segregation. It’s got a lot of shout-outs to Caves of Steel, which is a good move, but says a lot more about the ugliness of humanity than Asimov could ever manage to say.

2 thoughts on “Automaton”

  1. Like a lot of alternate history, Automata makes you realize how little you need to change the past to get a horrific dystopia.

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