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What I Think About When I Think About Robots
Steven Hall
‘The robot is the Godot of practical science.’
Hajiriya and Gajiriya | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The day after my visit to the silica factories in Godhra, I am taken to meet three dead men.’
The Last Vet
Aminatta Forna
‘Jalloh likes to keep accurate records of such things. After all, nobody else does.’
Janesville, Wisconsin
Steven Greenhouse
‘To them, the emphasis was on the ‘creative’ part of creative destruction. But in Janesville, few could see beyond the destruction.’
Saturday Night and Tuesday Morning
Nicola Monaghan
‘It was the middle of summer and a group of us were out on the town in Nottingham City Centre.’
Prajapati | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The funnel is clearly dormant, but the dust is alive, rising up even as it closes in around us.’
Antonio Oliveira Ruvenal | Working Lives
Antonio Oliveira Ruvenal & Isa Pessoa
‘You figure you don’t want to repeat history, that it will be different with your children, not like your parents, but I think I’m doing just the same thing.’
If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder
Aleksandar Hemon
‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’
Seiche
Stuart Dybek
‘In memory, Lake Shore Drive is empty, barred to traffic, as if awaiting a tsunami.’
