In the title story of this collection, a family decides to purchase an ‘electric grandmother’ to serve as a maid.I Sing the Body Electric, Stories by Ray Bradbury. “Marrionettes, Inc.” depicts a future where the titular corporation designs robots able to clandestinely stand in for a bored spouse.īradbury, R. In “The Veldt” a mechanized virtual reality for two children supersedes the importance of their parents.“The Long Years” deals with robots and grief when tinkerer Hathaway’s original family passes away, rather than coming to terms with his loss he builds a replacement family and lives a fantasy.īradbury, R. “There Will Come Soft Rains” depicts the continuation of a mechanized household in the aftermath of a devastating war, eerily performing its functions despite the demise of the house’s inhabitants’. Several stories in this collection feature robots.On account of Adam’s rational, human-like narration though, the question is begged: who are the real monsters?īradbury, R. Link, one who is treated like an abomination by humanity.
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In The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. In this speculative inversion of Asimov’s I-Robot series, Bayley presents Jasperodus, a robot who desperately wants to prove to humanity that he has a soul.īester, A.Baum’s third book in the Oz series is the first to feature Tik-Tok, a mechanical man with three wind-up’s to operate: one to think, one to move, and one to speak.īayley, B.J.Consider Phlebas depicts the cultures war against the alien Idiran race.īaum, F.L. This novel introduces Banks complex future society, ‘the culture’, an advanced collective of genetically altered humans and sentient machines.Protagonist Anderson Lake’s world is complicated when he becomes entangled with one of these engineered people, the abused ‘wind-up’ girl Emiko.īanks, Iain M. A nightmarish near-future Thailand features, among other technological advances, ‘new-people’, engineered human beings designed to be servile.This Asimov/Silverberg collaboration follows Andrew’s quest to be recognized as human.īacigalupi, P. The Martin family’s robot servant, Andrew, has a peculiar design flaw, one that allows him to experience a wider range of human emotion than robots are normally capable.The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. And finally, a robot must protect its own existence so long as doing so does not conflict with the first and second laws.
Second, robots must obey human commands unless they conflict with the first law. Asimov’s seminal collection of inter-related stories depict a future where humans have created robots and formatted them to adhere to three laws: first, a robot cannot harm a human being or allow harm to befall them through inaction.The process of assimilating her grandmother has unforeseen consequences however. When her grandmother, also a robot, goes havoc at Amy’s kindergarten graduation, Amy brashly decides to eat her. This futuristic young adult novel follows five year old Amy, a vN a robot.In a future where overpopulation has led to a severe government restriction on human reproduction, robots are used as surrogate family members for those unable to have real children.Īshby, M.Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010.
“Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” (1969). His pessimism is frequently used for comic relief, but his atypical attitude for a robot also makes him one of the more charming characters.Īldiss, B.
Due to his advanced intelligence, Marvin is afflicted with extreme apathy and depression. One of Adams’ main characters in The Hitchhiker’s Guide series is Marvin the Paranoid Android.
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