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Ticktock (1996) is a novel by Dean Koontz.It is significantly out-of-genre for Koontz: after a typical horror opening, the tone of the plot changes to screwball comedy [1] and the humour increases steadily to the end.
The title character is an intelligent robot (named after the mechanical man in the Oz books) who originally works as a domestic servant and house-painter.Unlike other robots, whose behavior is constrained by "asimov circuits"—a reference to Isaac Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics, which require robots to protect and serve humans—Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he ...
Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914.The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in The Road to Oz) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.
The traveller and watchmaker Adolf Seefeldt, also called "Sandman" or – because of his profession – "Uncle Tick Tock" and "Uncle Adi", abused and killed at least twelve boys during the reign of the Third Reich. As a crime scene, he usually chose pine preservations with one exception.
Tick-Tock, a fictional crocodile from the Peter Pan TV series Jake and the Never Land Pirates Project Tic-Toc, a plot element in the TV series The Time Tunnel Tik-Tok (Oz) , a character in the Oz novel series by L. Frank Baum
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Tik-Tok is a fictional "mechanical man" from the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. [1] He has been termed "the prototype robot", [2] and is widely considered to be one of the first robots to appear in modern literature, [3] though the term "Robot" was not used until the 1920s, in the play R.U.R.
The Tik-Tok Man of Oz is a musical play with book and lyrics by L. Frank Baum and music by Louis F. Gottschalk that opened at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 31, 1913. [1] It is loosely inspired by Baum's book Ozma of Oz (1907), incorporates much of the material from Baum's book The Road to Oz (1909), and was the basis ...