Free Comic Book Day!

Hey - today is free comic book day!
Get Thee to the Comic-bookery post haste!

But hey, it's free comic book day EVERY day here!

Enjoy our weekend special - The Datajunkie Lucky 7!



Dark Mansion 8



Dark Mansion 9



Space Adventures 13



Anthro 6



Fightin' Five 40



Secret Agent 9



Tales Of Suspense 10

Robot, good.... Android, bad!

Robot, good.... Android, bad!

Move over PKD, the simulacrums are HERE!
Sorry... been ultra busy....
More soonest!

Robot Appreciation Week Is Coming!

Hoo Boy....
Am I gonna have fun with THIS one!

Steel Caverns

ASIMOV'S THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2.A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
HANDBOOK OF ROBOTICS
56th Edition, 2058A.D.

"(My novel) The Caves of Steel.... was a good science fiction novel and, at the same time, a straightforward mystery. It was the first time (in my opinion) that anyone had brought the two genres into quite so perfect a fusion."
-from I. Asimov (1994).


Part 1





"Caves of Steel" Pt 1
"Caves of Steel" Pt 2


Plus, what's this I find on the IMBD about an adaption (by Terry [Dalek] Nation) from the UK broadcast 5th June 1964 with Peter Cushing as Elijah Baley. Directed by Peter Sasdy - who, apart from the Nigel Kneale-scripted "The Stone Tape" '70's TV drama, also directed several horror films for Hammer Studios, including Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), Countess Dracula (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971) and Nothing But the Night (1972). Hmm?

Here's some more robots -












PS. This is a truncated re-post (since Picasa ate the bulk of my images, and my computer is also less than co-operative - therefore I can't re-upload them any time soon).
Sorry....

PPS. Please don't hot-link to my files, just link to the relevant post..
OK?
If I wanted hot links, i'd go to a Bar-B-Que.....

Robot = Good / Computer = Bad (Re-Post)

Now, i really LOVE both these films, and the books are not too bad either! This adaption of the film, though scarce, is worth the effort to find, as it's quite well-written (unusual for film adaptions from the '50's).


A real nice shot of our boy lookin' good!

"....and the ice-cubes come out here."

I can't help but feel there's some deep Freudian overtones to these pix with Anne Francis though...




... and I don't want to think how many times this spaceship (both footage and the actual model) was used in the original Twilight Zone......
Our pal, Robby The Robot is everthing you could want in a robot... polite, if somewhat of a smart-ass. Kinda like me, I guess. Here he is, my brother from another mother, in "Forbidden Planet" - the radio version from Australia(!?!).
"Forbidden Planet"!

"Colossus, The Forbin Project" from the first of a series of three novels by D.F. Jones is the OTHER side of the coin, and far more probable to occur anytime soon. We make the big brain, give it total control of all the nukes, and guess what happens?

Behave or else is the dictate from the Big C, learn to love the superior machine or glow in the dark.

Yet another great performance by voice artist Paul Frees as "The Voice of Colossus".

Think it won't happen in YOUR lifetime?

Better think again.....

Here's a fabulous adaption of the NOVEL (which came before the movie) starring Barry Morse and Barry Newman -
"Colossus, The Forbin Project"