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    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

    Written by Karel Čapek

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought?First performed in English in 1922, R.U.R. is most notable for being the play that introduced the word "robot" into the English language and one of the popular early examples of the science fiction genre onstage. (Mary Kay)Cast List:
    Narrator: John Trevithick
    Helena Glory / Robot Helena: Sarah Terry
    Harry Domin / Primus: ToddHW
    Dr. Gall: Barry Streifert
    Mr. Fabry: James Callaghan
    Dr. Hallemeier / Consul Busman: SteveToner
    Mr. Alquist: Beth Thomas
    Nana: KHand
    Radius: T. Layne
    Sulla / First Robot: Tina Nuzzi
    Marius / Fourth Robot: Rosslyn Carlyle
    A Servant: Etel Buss
    Second Robot / Third Robot: Kitty Kay / Mary Kay
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    Karel Čapek

    Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.

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    • 3/5
      The LibriVox recording uses the Paul Selver translation, which is abridged, and the performers have different quality recordings. It's fairly clear, but not the easiest to listen to.

      The work itself is very interesting and well worth reading, especially as a science fiction fan.