Thinking robots

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Thinking Robot (Original title: Robots pensants ) is a 1962 published science fiction - narrative of the Anglo-French author George Langelaan which was filmed 1976th

Content of the story

The young pianist Penny Vanderwood made a macabre discovery in 1961. The maneuvers of the robot (more precisely Androids ) that they attach Count Saint Germain observed are similar to those of her missing a few months ago fiancé Robert. Together with her admirer Lewis Armight, worried Penny puts an end to the count, who builds human brains into androids and wants to build a piano android out of her, after a series of gruesome events.

The story relates directly to Edgar Allan Poe's essay Maelzel's Chess-Player (1836), in which Poe deals with the alleged chess robot from the 18th century, known as the " Chess Turk ". In his story, Lagelaan still takes the point of view that a chess-playing robot is “not producible”, although work on the development of chess programs was already underway around 1960.

filming

In 1976, the French film Chess the Robot with Claude Jade as Penny was directed by Michel Subiela .

expenditure

  • First printing: Robots pensants. In: George Langelaan: Nouvelles de l'anti-monde . Robert Laffont, Paris 1962.
  • First German translation: Thinking robots. In: George Langelaan: The fly and other stories from the fantastic reality. Scherz 1963. Paperback edition: dtv 1965, pp. 125–156.

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