Even Animals Are Machines - Vaccari, Andrés
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FILE UNDER BAROQUE-PUNK 1649, North Sea. The great philosopher René Descartes carries a heavy heart and a target on his back. Sick with pneumonia, pursued by powerful enemies, he flees by ship to Sweden and a new life. His companion: a sentient android replica of Francine, his beloved, dead daughter. But the ship's captain has other plans. Accusing Descartes of sorcery, he tosses the droid overboard, plunging Francine into a bizarre afterlife: a machinic graveyard ruled by malignant necromancers. There, she hacks the dying philosopher's mind, glimpsing the birth of A.I. in a timestream parallel to our own.…mehr

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FILE UNDER BAROQUE-PUNK 1649, North Sea. The great philosopher René Descartes carries a heavy heart and a target on his back. Sick with pneumonia, pursued by powerful enemies, he flees by ship to Sweden and a new life. His companion: a sentient android replica of Francine, his beloved, dead daughter. But the ship's captain has other plans. Accusing Descartes of sorcery, he tosses the droid overboard, plunging Francine into a bizarre afterlife: a machinic graveyard ruled by malignant necromancers. There, she hacks the dying philosopher's mind, glimpsing the birth of A.I. in a timestream parallel to our own.
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Andrés Vaccari is the author of Robotomy (Saturn Press, 1997), El Enjambre y las Sombras (short stories, 2018, EMB/Juan Ojeda Prize), Smoky: Relato de Muerte, Exilio y Terror (Borde Perdido, 2022), and two award-winning stage plays. Andrés obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy from Macquarie University with a thesis on Descartes and the links between posthumanism and mechanistic biology. His academic papers and short stories have appeared in various international journals and magazines. He has lectured and tutored at the universities of Canberra, Swinburne, Macquarie, and Buenos Aires, among others.