(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Ah, fusion. Yes, it was the shielding I was concerned about.

Gerry Quinn wrote:
> From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
>> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>
>>> I'd read this more as Wolfe musing, "How will I call robots without 
>>> sounding like ad copy for a Japanese toy?
>>> Hm, well the inventor of robots called them chemical in nature. This 
>>> runs against the cliche. Thus, applying
>>> Brunians' radical principle, I shall call them "chems." "
>> ....
>> That sounds reasonable to me.  Also, maybe their power source is 
>> electrochemical, namely batteries.  Was there ever anything in the 
>> Long Sun books about where they get their power, needing to recharge, 
>> etc.?
>
> They are nuclear powered, although not necessarily all of the same 
> type. Mint caused a trooper's fusion power source to blow when she 
> struck him with an azoth.  And Crane was concerned about [radioactive] 
> isotope contamination after he treated Lemur similarly - he said it 
> was good that he and Silk had been washed by their swim in Lake Limna.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
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