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ISBN-10: 0141182083
ISBN-13: 9780141182087
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 03/30/2004
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.00" W, 0.32" H

R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Translator: Claudia Novack-Jones
Introduction by: Ivan Klima

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A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word “robot”

Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922–garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product–they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.

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A great writer of the past who speaks to the present in a voice brilliant, clear, honorable, blackly funny, and prophetic. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
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Details

ISBN-10: 0141182083
ISBN-13: 9780141182087
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 03/30/2004
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.00" W, 0.32" H
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