Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids — Tag Meaning
Rebuilds characters as artificial beings — androids discovering deviancy, robot companions outliving their owners, machines wondering if what they compute is feeling. Detroit: Become Human and Star Trek traditions both feed this tag, and the genre's perennial question is whether programmed love is less real, with most authors arguing firmly that it isn't.
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Synthetic characters and the humans (or machines) who love them; personhood is the battleground, tenderness the weapon.
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