Just what men wanted for Christmas and didn't get.

[3113]

Isaac Asimov wrote one of his robot stories about a woman who fell in love with a robot servant. He predates this by about 40 years.

And THAT my dear Og, was pre-dated by Metropolis some 20 years earlier, where, if you recall, the robot takes on the appearance of the protagonists main infatuation Maria. THAT was 1927. Asimov would have been all of 7 years old at the time. Wonder if he saw that film?

 

[Boxlicker101]

There was also a short story written during the Thirties about HELEN ALLOY who was also know as Helen O'Loy.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I believe that was either "Caves of Steel" or "Stars like Dust", Og, and the robot was R. Daneele Oliva who, as the story progressed, became the main suspect in the woman's murder. But the robot had a smile on his face because he was getting it

It' wasn't Caves of Steel. It was one of the sequels. I don't remember exactly which one though, as it has been around 20 years since I read those books. I was just thinking yesterday though, how I should reread Azimov.

 

[oggbashan]

It' wasn't Caves of Steel. It was one of the sequels. I don't remember exactly which one though, as it has been around 20 years since I read those books. I was just thinking yesterday though, how I should reread Azimov.

I'm sure it was one of the stories collected in "I, Robot", and from before before Caves of Steel was written. I've just looked through some of my Asimov, but the story I want isn't in the books I've found yet.

Og

 

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[Jenny_Jackson]

It' wasn't Caves of Steel. It was one of the sequels. I don't remember exactly which one though, as it has been around 20 years since I read those books. I was just thinking yesterday though, how I should reread Azimov.

Azamov's robot books begin with I Robot then The Rest of the Robots. After that was Stars then Caves of Steel. Later, the Foundation series incorportated Oliva but you don't find out until the last volumn (like volume 6 or something) that Oliva is part of the "Second Foundation".

 

[fifty5]

I'm sure it was one of the stories collected in "I, Robot", and from before before Caves of Steel was written. I've just looked through some of my Asimov, but the story I want isn't in the books I've found yet.

Og

I think you mean, "Satisfaction Guaranteed" first published in 1951 (copyright 1950) in Super Science Stories, then anthologised in The Rest of the Robots.

"Tony was tall and darkly handsome,with an incredibly patrician air drawn into his unchangeable expression, and Claire Belmont regarded him with a mixture of horror and dismay. ... So he made love to her, since what woman would fail to appreciate the compliment of being able to stir passion in a machine - in a cold, soulless machine. ... "

 

[oggbashan]

I think you mean, "Satisfaction Guaranteed" first published in 1951 (copyright 1950) in Super Science Stories, then anthologised in The Rest of the Robots.

"Tony was tall and darkly handsome,with an incredibly patrician air drawn into his unchangeable expression, and Claire Belmont regarded him with a mixture of horror and dismay. ... So he made love to her, since what woman would fail to appreciate the compliment of being able to stir passion in a machine - in a cold, soulless machine. ... "

Thanks, ff, that's the one I meant. I've been trying to find the anthology in the depths of my library but real life and our Council's budget meetings have been thwarting me.

Og