Re: [*FSFFU*] robot books for high schoolers

From: Neil Rest (NeilRest@TEZCAT.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 03 1997 - 08:05:32 PDT


Kate Williams <kwillia8@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU> asked about robot stories for
high school students, especially with social consequences:

You just about have to begin with Asimov. The "Three Laws" ought to be
good for a couple days duscussion by themselves, especially with the _I
Robot_ collection. Then the interrupted robot murder-mystery trilogy.
_Caves of Steel_ has too many people per robot; _The Naked Sun_ has too
many robots per person.

And while you're at it, would "R.U.R." be useful? Capek's "robots" are
what we now call "androids", but a lot of the issues are there, and it's
the source of our use of the word.

Neil Rest



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