
A note from the Editor:

Here at the Chronicle, we strive to provide many different viewpoints. This past Sunday, we ran a review of the controversial new &quot;Molten Alloy and Torn Lace&quot; novel. As many of you know, the novel's depictions of intimate automaton/human relations have kicked off a firestorm of controversy. As a news organization, we feel it is our duty to report on this controversy and to fairly represent all sides of the issue. Reprinted below are a few responses we received, including one from Aada Jakes, spokesperson for the radical pro-bosonic group Foundation for Freedom of Bosonic Individuals.

Stay tuned for next week's interview with secretive &quot;Alloy and Lace&quot; author R. D. Golem, where we discuss the novel and her reaction to the furor!

A final note: please <strong>do not</strong> send us unsolicited works of fan fiction on this topic. They will be returned unopened.

 

To the FA Chronicle Editorial Board:

I applaud you for your ongoing and unbiased coverage of 'Molten Alloy and Torn Lace'. As an activist with FFBI, I think it's important that the media encourage these kind of full-featured depictions of bosonic individuals.

As you know, humanity has had a fascination with mechanical entities for thousands of years. Yet it is only recently that advances in bosonics have allowed us to create such entities with enough complexity to be capable of active participation in these sorts of activities.

We applaud Ms. Golem for her work in fighting to change attitudes about Bosonic individuals and how they can participate in our lives not as property, but as consenting peers. In particular, showing Bosonic protagonist Steele Alloy as a complex character with real emotions rather than simply a walking toy is a bold step forward, even if his emotions are mainly portrayed as amorous in nature.

Aada Jakes

 

To the FA Chronicle Editorial Board:

Hi. I liked your review of that new book, what with the people and the 'tomatons doing things.

Could you please post pictures? Like a, what you call, &quot;imaginative rendering&quot;? I don't know, maybe one of them old-fashioned pixel paintings, from the part where Steele's ablative coating is all torn down the front, and he's holdin' that 'lil human lady in his arms?

I am an aficionado with a totally, what you call, academic interest in that sort of thing.

Long time reader. Love your paper.

Anonymous Reader from Oakland

