Traditional robot stories tend to be Promethean: they're about people who seize the forbidden and god-like power of creation.
Some items are of primarily technological interest, like Freedom of Creation's dress and handbag of plastic links made by computer-driven lasers.
3D printing companies like Freedom of Creation, Materialise and Shapeways are all based, or originated, in this area.
In Antiheroes, the rush for the artist derives from the "game-like" environment of creation.
"I vomited with eyes closed and sensed myself a Serpent of Being... covered with Aureole of spiky snakeheads miniatured radiant & many colored around my hands & throat -- my throat bulging like the Beast of Creation, like the Beast of Death".
I like gods, I like myth, I like epic stories of creation, but I don't believe in them.
Keillor and his show have their fans – a weekly audience of more than 3 million currently — and their detractors, some of whom strive to separate their dislike of the creator from their liking of his creation.
In fact, it reads like a kind of creation myth, gothicised.
The marvelous chronicler of nature, Henry David Thoreau, wrote in "Walden," "'As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming of spring is like the creation of cosmos out of chaos, and the realization of the Golden Age".
I like to say "Community of Creation" as an alternative.
