![]() ![]() ![]() In his introduction, Strahan argues that the continuing popularity of robots may be partly due to our failure to find evidence of other intelligent life in the universe, and so we create artificial intelligence just to keep from feeling lonely. Anthologies about robots may be nearly as important in SF history as individual novels and stories, from one of the earliest, Groff Conklin’s 1954 Science-Fiction Thinking Machines (which included Capek’s play, probably presented for the first time in the context of genre SF) to the more recent and playful (such as Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe’s Robots vs. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Ian McLeod), more recently ascendant (Ken Liu, Annalee Newitz, Brooke Bolander), and broadly international (Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Saad Z. ![]() will have us reconsidering the long and varied history of robots in SF, and an excellent way to start that conversation is by reading Jonathan Strahan’s Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, which brings together 16 original stories from writers long established (Peter F. I suppose it’s both appropriate and inevitable that the coming centennial of Karel Capek’s R.U.R. ![]() Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, Jonathan Strahan, ed. ![]()
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