{"id":629,"date":"2016-07-04T23:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629"},"modified":"2017-10-21T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T18:25:08","slug":"the-thinking-girls-guide-to-the-robot-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking Girl&#8217;s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/47397263-368-k457880.jpg\"><img title=\"47397263-368-k457880.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/47397263-368-k457880.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not many academics can say that they&#8217;ve had their research poached by novelists and turned into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/47397263-i%27m-a-cyborg%27s-pet\">a seriously successful young adult novel<\/a>. At the time of writing it&#8217;s not far short of a million reads.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m A Cyborg&#8217;s Pet <\/em>is a shocking sci-fi BDSM robo-dystopia, inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.lincoln.ac.uk\/7569\/\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.lincoln.ac.uk\/13894\/\">papers<\/a> I wrote with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/tftv\/staff\/ben-kirman\/\">Ben Kirman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/research.ucc.ie\/profiles\/A011\/conorlinehan\">Conor Linehan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-staff\/l\/shaun-lawson\/\">Shaun Lawson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dblp.uni-trier.de\/pers\/hd\/b\/Buttrick:Laura\">Laura Buttrick<\/a>. I do suggest you read it because, whatever version of the future you&#8217;re expecting, it&#8217;s probably wrong. And nowhere near as funny.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-629\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-629\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-629\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many academics can say that they&#8217;ve had their research poached by novelists and turned into a seriously successful young adult novel. At the time of writing it&#8217;s not far short of a million reads. I&#8217;m A Cyborg&#8217;s Pet is a shocking sci-fi BDSM robo-dystopia, inspired by a couple of papers I wrote with Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-629\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-629\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-629\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Thinking Girl&#039;s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse - Dan O&#039;Hara<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/danohara.co.uk\/?p=629\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Thinking Girl&#039;s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse - Dan O&#039;Hara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not many academics can say that they&#8217;ve had their research poached by novelists and turned into a seriously successful young adult novel. 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