Sexy Asian lady robots haunt science fiction

The threat is not literal, though it is certainly present: the slow-burning but now resurgent thread of orientalism in science fiction.

Blade Runner

Annalee Newitz writes that we need to fight back against the threat from sexy Asian lady robots. The threat is not literal, though it is certainly present: the slow-burning but now resurgent thread of orientalism in science fiction.

You may not know the term, but if you have watched the 1982 movie Blade Runner or the 2002 TV series Firefly, y…