R.U.R.
Title: | R.U.R. |
Author: | Karel Capek |
Genre: | SF |
Copyright: | 1923 |
Ranking: | ?Unranked |
Binding: | paperback |
LibraryThing: | Title:R.U.R. WorkId 1402407 |
Type: | Owned |
R. U. R. stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots", and this play is apparently the first place where the word "robot" was used.
Very interesting from a history of SF perspective. Notably the robots here are more like what later SF would call androids.