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The American defense computer Colossus that takes over the world in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) The all-robot police force in THX 1138 (1971) Huey, Dewey and Louie, drones in Silent Running (1972) – notable as the first movie in which non-humanoid robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees; Jet Jaguar in Godzilla vs ...
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy themes published. Artists known exclusively for their work in comic books ...
Robot or android Ref 1927 Metropolis: Germany Maria's robot double [1] 1934 Der Herr der Welt (i.e. Master of the World) Germany Überroboter / Kampfmaschine (i.e. fighting machine), working-robots 1935 Loss of Sensation: USSR: 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still: USA Gort [1] 1957 The Invisible Boy: USA Robby the Robot: 1962 The Creation of the ...
Pages in category "Fictional humanoid robots" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... The Hunt (1950s Stanisław Lem short story) I. The ...
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a single publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies.
This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' or 'golden' era of science fiction theate. With at least 204 sci-fi films produced, it holds the record for the largest number of science fiction produced per decade. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience. Many were formulaic, gimmicky, comic-book ...
The Humanoids is a 1949 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Jack Williamson (1908–2006). [1] Originally published as a three-part serial called "...And Searching Mind" in Astounding Science-Fiction (March, April, May 1948), it was in fact a sequel to an earlier novelette, "With Folded Hands...", appearing in the same magazine in July of the previous year of 1947.