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Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Allegories, Companions, Advisor, Otherworldly, and Outsiders

By Dan Hope | October 6, 2023

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On Shakespeare's Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard's Plays From Being Burned

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