I, Row-Boat

by Cory Doctorow

Introduction to Anda’s Game by Cory Doctorow:

“This story came to me while I was 20 meters down the reef-wall in the Coral Sea, off the coast of northern Australia. I think a turtle was involved.

The good ship ‘Spirit of Freedom’ is the model for the ‘Free Spirit,’ the ship in this tale. As far as I know, neither it nor its ship’s boats are sentient.

If I return to this theme, it will be with a story about uplifted cheese sandwiches, called ‘I, Rarebit.’

‘I, Row-Boat’ is a riff on my Hugo-nominated story I, Robot, and it concerns the theological wars between an Asimov-cultist AI boat and an uplifted coral-reef.”

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I, Row-Boat is a story about a theological dispute between an artifically intelligent Asimov three-laws cultist and an uplifted coral reef.

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