| Author/Contributor(s): | Čupová, Kateřina ; Nováková, Julie |
| Publisher: | Rosarium Publishing |
| Date: | 12/10/2024 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Long before there was Terminator and Skynet, there was R.U.R., the Czech classic that gave us the word "robot".
The R.U.R. Factory, far from humanity
on its own island, has produced the perfect product: Robots! Devoid
of pain, love, and all human emotion, never tiring, never bored,
unfazed by death they are the ideal worker for modern-day society!
All of this is about to change, and
only Helena can see it. She is condemned to remain alone in her
dread, as all of society embraces the robots and the automatons'
presence increases. However, there has been a glitch in the
programming. All of our assumptions may have been wrong. The robots
may indeed feel pain. They may harbor passions and hatred, and the
Robot Revolution may be near!
As retold and drawn by the young,
award-winning Czech graphic novelist, Katerina Cupová, this seminal
dystopian work by Karel Capek (which gave us the word "robot")
makes the reader question the notions of work and progress and
humanity itself. Through Cupová's deft hand, R.U.R. Is a sight to
behold.