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1. Scales by Alastair Reynolds

   Fresh from signing a £1m deal with Gollancz, the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds has penned a story for the Guardian which follows a new recruit sent out to battle in an interstellar war.

   Nineteen years after his first short story appeared, and nine years after the first of his eight novels was published, Scales is Reynolds’ first foray into militaristic SF. In it, he explores the transformations war imposes on soldiers as his hero Nico’s mission evolves into something stranger than he could have possibly imagined.

   Reynolds is best-known for his mastery of space opera – the SF sub-genre in which the stakes are high and the aliens deadly – but, after 16 years working for the European Space Agency, he brings a scientist’s rigour to the genre’s high drama.

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jun/19/alastair-reynolds-scales-short-story

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2. Are We Alone: Robots Call the Shots

   Dr. Robot, I presume? Your appendix may be removed by motor-driven, scalpel-wielding mechanical hands one day. Robots are debuting in the medical field… as well as on battlefields. And they’re increasingly making important decisions – on their own. But can we teach robots right from wrong? Find out why the onslaught of silicon intelligence has prompted a new field of robo-ethics.

   Plus, robo-geologists: NASA’s vision for autonomous robots in space.

   Guests:

   • P.W. Singer – Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
   • Wendell Wallach – Chair of a technology and ethics working group for Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the co-author of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
   • Pablo Garcia – – Principal engineer working on medical robotics at SRI International, Menlo Park, California
   • Robert Anderson – Planetary geologist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
   • Robyn Asimov – Daughter of author Isaac Asimov

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