Comments on: Escape Pod Flash: My Angel Gabriel

By: Urikson

Urikson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:43:57 +0000

Really liked the ending and the reading. It’s both unpredictable and very clever. Upon contemplation I also found this story quite scary…

By: radlilim

radlilim — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:58:07 +0000

awesome flash, cool enough to make me search back though the archives to comment

By: MasterThief

MasterThief — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:51:17 +0000

I keep telling myself I’m not a bot…

By: The Fix | From the Podosphere: March 2009

The Fix | From the Podosphere: March 2009 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:23:15 +0000

[...] Leckie reads J. R. Blackwell’s flash piece “My Angel Gabriel.” Online forums (fora?) provide a great way of interacting with other people—though you can [...]

By: mark

mark — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:26:42 +0000

thanks !! very helpful post!

By: Paul Fischer

Paul Fischer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:51:40 +0000

This is the quintessential essence of flash fiction. It brings you in to the meat of the story, humanizes the players, and then POW! out of nowhere comes an amazing twist. I absolutely loved it.

Kudos to J.R. Blackwell! I never saw the end coming and it blew me away.

By: Dave (aka Nev the Deranged)

Dave (aka Nev the Deranged) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:00:38 +0000

Man, here I thought I was the only person who used the term “meatspace”, heh.

By: yicheng

yicheng — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:27:46 +0000

I saw the ending “twist” coming from a mile away.

By: Divya

Divya — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:15:18 +0000

Loved the story.

By: Blaine Boy

Blaine Boy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:50:55 +0000

Dudes, computers can talk to us. By themselves… Call Asimov; he needs to make the Laws of Living Computers.

Actually, never mind. I’ve got some myself: (1) self-intelligent computers may not tamper with human archives on any database of any sort, personal, historic, economic, or otherwise (2) self-thinking computers may not help a human tamper with another person’s/ community’s/ country’s archives or databases (3) self-intelligent computers may not perform illegal actions for any person or institution (that’s right kids, no porn) (4) self-thinking computers may not create viruses or other soft-ware hacking/destroying materials (5) all self-thinking computers must be programmed with a “switch” to disable sentient capabilities (both electronic and manual). Under this final law, the intelligence is not destroyed but put into a “off” mode basically (like stasis).

As soon as the self-intelligent computers get the upgrade that put’s them into bodies, Asimov’s Laws take over (already programmed into the robotic bodies.)

I’ve thought this out.

Sincerely (but not entirely),
The Blaine Boy

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:58:21 +0000

Why not one about robot pedophiles or computers that set-up people for sex involuntarily?

By: batosai33

batosai33 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:24:40 +0000

I like the story, I just can’t decide whether Rachel made a mistake with the code or Becky was a bot (possibly from the police). I am leaning toward the police bot since that is funnier for me.

By: Kit OConnell

Kit OConnell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:35:04 +0000

I enjoyed this. I am not sure why it was rated R, though.

By: Schreiber

Schreiber — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:32:39 +0000

So few words…but so depressing.