“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”
In 1921, #OTD, theworld premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti) by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové. It introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
R.U.R. at PG: gutenberg.org/ebooks/59…
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