(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

No one is saying Agia is a chem.

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
>
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