From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I, Robot
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:10:34 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:11 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I, Robot

> >I think there was an outer limits episode (both
> >incarnations) entitled "I robot," which dealt with the
> >described scenario of a robot having killed its
> >creator.
>
> Actually based on a story of the same name but written by Eando Binder =
> (joint pseudonym of Otto and Earl Binder) published in Amazing, Jan 1939.
=
> The wrote a series of stories dealing with the character "Adam Link".

In addition EC adapted several of the Adam Link stories (including the
first, "I Robot") in its final SF comic, INCREDIBLE SCIENCE-FICTION.  And
subsequently comics fans like Bill Spicer did their own adaptations of the
Adam Link stories for b&w comics done in photo-offset, in the '60s and
maybe '70s.

I've read all the original Binder stories (in AMAZING); they started out
strong, but gradually trivialized, especially after he got a robot
girlfriend....

--Ted White