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  • Oddly enough, neither operator had called the police to report that their surrogates or "surries" had been destroyed or report the crime themselves.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Dart Adams 2009

  • Oddly enough, neither operator had called the police to report that their surrogates or "surries" had been destroyed or report the crime themselves.

    Dart Adams presents The Dartflix Film Review: Surrogates Dart Adams 2009

  • Written by Robert Venditti and illustrated by Brett Weldele, The Surrogates tells the story of an all-too plausible future in which people have increasingly turned over their daily lives to robotic avatars, living vicariously through their surrogates (or "surries") from the comfort of their own homes.

    Jared Gardner: My "Surrie" With the Fringe on Top 2009

  • VSI, the corporation which makes and markets "surries," finds this development unsettling, to say the least -- while the leader of a radical group of "meatbags" (i.e., actual human beings who walk around in their own bodies, for cripe's sake!) thinks it might be the answer to his prayers.

    PegasusNews.com stories 2009

  • The result is a society where crime and racism has all but disappeared - everyone just stays at home in their chairs while their "surries" go out into the world.

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • Surrogates or “surries” as most call them, are simply put a type of android that people can pilot from the safety of there own homes.

    From the Void Comes… The Surrogates « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • The users sit at home and experience life through the six senses provided, filtered electronically, by the "surries."

    Getting Graphic: "The Surrogates" by Robert Vendetti & Brett Weldele 2010

  • Araña, calèches, surries or buggies, as you choose to call them, are for rent with driver at the Hotel Belmar and various other points in the city.

    Did you know? Mexico was a very different place fifty years ago 2008

  • Araña, calèches, surries or buggies, as you choose to call them, are for rent with driver at the Hotel Belmar and various other points in the city.

    Did you know? Mexico was a very different place fifty years ago 2008

  • After retrieving the operator information from one of the surries (the other was unregistered) they discovered a dead body in the operators apartment still in it's Stim Chair (where humans lay/sit while they operate their surrogates).

    Archive 2009-09-01 Dart Adams 2009

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