Difference between revisions of "EAC234 Assignment 1 - Helen O'loy - Mark Salvador"

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Revision as of 18:39, 23 February 2007

GENERAL

  • Helen O’loy is a short SF story written by Lester del Rey and was first published in 1938. At the time the typical robot stories involved rampaging automatons creating a path of death and destruction across the planet Earth. Straying away from this, Helen O’Loy focuses on love, or artificial love for that matter where (which has never been heard of before) a robot has human emotions.


SUMMARY/PLOT

SETTING

MAJOR CHARACTERS

  • Helen
  • Dave
  • Phil
  • Lena
  • Mrs. van Styler


THEMES

SCI-FI ELEMENTS

RELATED THEMES

  • The following are short blurbs of similar/related characters to Helen O'loy in modern popular Sci-Fi culture. These characters are robots/androids/AI/cyborgs that have human traits or wish to have human traits. They are seen in many of of today's Sci-Fi TV shows and movies which are shown in Canada on the Space Channel or are available on DVD's for rentals or purchase. Also included are in-depth links to dedicated Wiki pages for each character.

Galactica

Star Trek

Stargate SG-1

Blade Runner

AI

I, Robot

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