Cyborg Theory

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I hope you all had an excellent weekend, class. Please pass your comparison analysis papers on Metropolis to the front of the room. Thank you.

Now, I have paired the class up in the following manner – and please move to sit with your partner, or in one case, group of three:

1) Veruca Cally, Beka Valentine

2) Lee Adama, Sharon Valerii

3) Bridge Carson, Sam Carter

4) Charlie Kawalsky, Aeryn Sun

5) John Crichton, Anakin Skywalker, Kara Thrace

For your next assignment – due in two weeks – I want you to write delicious crackfic a fictional story of your own focusing on some aspect of cyborg theory. It must make an argument pro or against human to cyborg and/or android relations (of any kind – political, social, romantic, etc).

By the end of class, I want you to have discussed with your partner the nature of the story you would like to write and whether it is to be pro or against human/cyborg/android relations.

If you have any questions, I'll be at my desk. Now get to work.


[Yes, and I actually want you very talented writers to actually do this. Fanfiction and/or crackfic – or original fiction, yay, -- is required, zomg, in two weeks. No word limit. I highly recommend www.writely.com for collaborative fiction.]

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Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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"I wouldn't expect anything less from you, Aeryn." Beka said tiredly. "For what it's worth, I was wrong." She went back to her seat without another word.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Eighth notices this all with interest.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Aeryn's not done, because it's been a really rough weekend and she's been waiting for someone to say something.

"You were," she goes on, not caring who's hearing it. "Completely. And a girl is dead, and two of your friends were sent to the clinic not three days ago! And now other people are stuck cleaning up a mess that you sat by and did nothing to stop from happening? For what it's worth? It's worth nothing."

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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From behind Aeryn, John whistles through his teeth slowly and opens another lollipop.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Aeryn starts to go back to work, then turns around again. "One more thing," she says. "If you or any of your little friends try to do something extremely stupid, like try to turn him back into a murdering psychopath, I swear that what Angel is going through is nothing compared to what I will make all of you feel."

She exhales, and turns back to Kawalsky. She feels remarkably better.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Beka heard every word that Aeryn said. Felt every word. If it were anyone but Aeryn, who she respected more than most, she might even have turned around and fought. But it wouldn't solve anything.

Instead, she said quietly over her shoulder. "I deserve that. So I'll just suck it up and take it."

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Not even looking back, Aeryn almost laughs at the faux martyrdom of it all. "I'd expect nothing less," she says to herself.