Robots

For all robots out there - add to the list or select your android favourite!  So, how many street signs?

tough choice between Hawkwind, Steve Hackett and Mother Gong. with Hawkwind and Hackett it is just a song (but a great one), with Mother Gong a whole album trilogy, of which the third part is a disappointment (drum machines instead of Guy Evans - what an awful choice). I'll go with Mother Gong this time

"I Robot" by The Alan Parsons Project.      Just had to mark gas stations when sending my APP review.  So what if I WERE a robot!Coincidentally I'm just reading Isaac Asimov's sf/detective novel The Caves of Steel  in which the other main character is a robot. 

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Matti wrote: Coincidentally I'm just reading Isaac Asimov's sf/detective novel The Caves of Steel  in which the other main character is a robot.

My favorite author...



which reminds me....  I think we  have the annual DC SOAR meeting tomorrow which means I can throw down scores of drinks with Ted and listen raptly to his 'behind the music' stories of Asimov...  seems he was quite the character

Matti wrote: "I Robot" by The Alan Parsons Project.

Paranoid Android

Matti wrote: "I Robot" by The Alan Parsons Project.       Just had to mark gas stations when sending my APP review.  So what if I WERE a robot! Coincidentally I'm just reading Isaac Asimov's sf/detective novel The Caves of Steel  in which the other main character is a robot.

By the way, have you got any idea if there's actually any connection between Alan Parson's "I Robot" album, and the book by Asimov? I actually haven't found much of a connection there. And have you read any more Asimov? Or are you just startig with "The Caves of Steel"? I actually think "The Foundation" series of books are much better than the Robot ones, but there are some nice connections on Foundation that are nice if you read the Robot ones before.

Dellinger wrote: By the way, have you got any idea if there's actually any connection between Alan Parson's "I Robot" album, and the book by Asimov? I actually haven't found much of a connection there. And have you read any more Asimov? Or are you just startig with "The Caves of Steel"? I actually think "The Foundation" series of books are much better than the Robot ones, but there are some nice connections on Foundation that are nice if you read the Robot ones before.

I've read The End of Eternity and The Foundation (just the first part), plus a couple of short stories.
   The APP album I Robot  is indeed inspired by the Asimov's book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Robot_(album)

  Not having read the book I'm not the one to point out more detailed connections.
'I Wouldn't Want to be Like You' - is it a robot's comment to a human or vice versa?

Dellinger wrote: Matti wrote: "I Robot" by The Alan Parsons Project.       Just had to mark gas stations when sending my APP review.  So what if I WERE a robot! Coincidentally I'm just reading Isaac Asimov's sf/detective novel The Caves of Steel  in which the other main character is a robot.  By the way, have you got any idea if there's actually any connection between Alan Parson's "I Robot" album, and the book by Asimov? I actually haven't found much of a connection there. And have you read any more Asimov? Or are you just startig with "The Caves of Steel"? I actually think "The Foundation" series of books are much better than the Robot ones, but there are some nice connections on Foundation that are nice if you read the Robot ones before.

as Friede noted.. Asimov didn't coin the term or introuduce robots.. but pretty much everything relating to him he did. Including 'robotics' ...the science of robots.  The links between the album and book are more thematic than specific, it is progressive rock you know. Use thy head...

What it touches upon are notions Asimov brought up and placed him on the Mount Rushmore of Sci-Fi writers, up with Heinlein and Clarke.  The album is a exploration on themes of A.I and their implications on human society and its future.


Edited by micky - April 23 2017 at 06:10