R.U.R.

Title: R.U.R.
Author: Karel Capek
Genre: Science Fiction
Copyright: 1923
Binding: paperback
LibraryThing: R.U.R.
Status: Owned

R. U. R. stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots", and this play is apparently the first place where the word "robot" was used.

Very interesting from a history of SF perspective. Notably the robots here are more like what later SF would call androids.

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