I am excited to say that I am back reviewing books. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid - a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.īut when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. Or even Artificial Intelligence like Hal from 2001 A Space Odyssey.In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Now we think of characters like R2-D2 or the Terminator. He was largely unsuccessful.Īs technology continues to advance in our world and robots are becoming a reality, it makes sense that robots would become much more prevalent. It wasn’t until the 1950s that someone attempted to actually build a robot as we know today. Frank Baum and was the inspiration for The Tin Man in Wizard of Oz.
Though the very first robotic character is considered to be Tik-Tok, a mechanical man living in Oz. In fact the word “robot” was first used in R.U.R, a play by Karel Čapek. Robots have been around in some form or another for a century. But what makes a robot great? What makes for the best sci-fi robots from books? Is it their capability? Is it their personality? Or something else? Probably it’s a little bit of everything.
In fact, when you think of the science fiction genre, robots are on of the first things that comes to mind. There are a lot of great robots in science fiction.
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