(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Ryan Dunn]

Aww... you're spoiling all the fun!

As for Hethor, I'd think he'd want a lighter sex bot (genicon, he says) than a chem while frolicking in bed. Someone he could overpower easily, should it come to that.

Have you any thoughts as to whether we should be looking for the genicon from the lemon-wood box in the text?

If yes, where to look? I'm following the clues, and they keep leading me to Agia. That's all I'm saying.

...ryan



On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> I have found that facts seldom get in the way of fancied theories, but here
> are a few.
> 
> Male chems (soldiers like Hammerstone) are taller, heavier than fem chems,
> and 5.25 times stronger. (That number comes from Marble, CALDE, chap. 8,
> p-284.) Silk said that she was too heavy for him to lift (ibid., chap. 4,
> p-131).
> 
> Chems don't eat or drink. Severian pushed Agia into a chair when she had a
> belly full of wine (SHADOW, chap. XXV). He also slapped her down, "My hand
> caught her just below the ear and she went sprawling, . .  . " (ibid., chap.
> XXVII). He easily overpowered her outside the mine of the man-apes and
> lifted her off her feet by her hair (CLAW, chap. VII). There is no way for
> Agia to be a chem. Agilus's execution speaks for itself, as others have
> pointed out.
> 
> Jonas was not a chem. Sev picked him up in the Antechamber: "I carried him
> back (finding him astonishingly light) and when I . . ." (CLAW, chap. XVI).
> Silk and Sev were both young, strong lads.
> 
> Inire interrogated Agia and put her in command of Vodalus's rebels (CITADEL,
> chap. XXXV). I think that he, as a hierodule, could tell a doll from a robot
> from a human woman. A woman is what he called her in his letter.
> 
> -Roy