Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:07:43 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I, Robot
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

In Europe they need special adaptors . . .

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 12/06/02 09:05AM >>>
	AC or DC?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:00 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I, Robot

>twhite8 at cox.net 12/04/02 10:10PM
>>----- 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....

Mrs Adam Linkl (the stories are from the 30s & 40s after all . . .) =
complaining to close frriend: "Our love life is soooooo mechanical."

mjw