Writer's Block: Robotic
Jan. 25th, 2009 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I might have to go with my Oz love and say Tik-Tok. I wouldn't say he's actually the first robot in literature, whatever some critics have claimed (even L. Frank Baum himself had already written about the cast-iron man in The Magical Monarch of Mo), but he's still a very well-written robotic character from before the term "robot" was even coined. And nowadays, there's sort of an unintentional steampunk feel to the clockwork man. That said, I definitely also have to give props to the robots of Futurama. Bender, Beelzebot, Robot Santa, Roberto, Hedonism Bot...the list goes on.
By the way, happy birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zaph! It would also be my grandfather's eighty-ninth birthday, if he were still around.
I might have to go with my Oz love and say Tik-Tok. I wouldn't say he's actually the first robot in literature, whatever some critics have claimed (even L. Frank Baum himself had already written about the cast-iron man in The Magical Monarch of Mo), but he's still a very well-written robotic character from before the term "robot" was even coined. And nowadays, there's sort of an unintentional steampunk feel to the clockwork man. That said, I definitely also have to give props to the robots of Futurama. Bender, Beelzebot, Robot Santa, Roberto, Hedonism Bot...the list goes on.
By the way, happy birthday to
zaph! It would also be my grandfather's eighty-ninth birthday, if he were still around.
