Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Star Trek: The True Story
Friday, September 23, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016
Thursday, June 23, 2016
I Robot by Eando Binder
The story is about a robot's confession. Some weeks earlier, its builder, Dr. Charles Link, built it in the basement. Link teaches his robot to walk, talk and behave civilly. Link's housekeeper sees the robot just enough to be horrified by it, but his dog is totally loyal to it. The robot is fully educated in a few weeks, Link then names it Adam Link, and it professes a desire to serve any human master who will have it. Soon afterwards, a heavy object falls on Dr. Link by accident and kills him. His housekeeper instantly assumes that the robot has murdered Dr. Link, and calls in armed men to hunt it down and destroy it. They don't succeed; in fact, they provoke the robot to retaliate, both by refusing to listen to it and by accidentally killing Dr. Link's dog. Back at the house, the robot finds a copy of Frankenstein, which Dr. Link had carefully hidden from the robot, and finally somewhat understands the prejudice against it. But in the end the robot decides that it simply isn't worth killing several people just to get a hearing, writes its confession, and prepares to turn itself off.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
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