One of Bender's forefathers
Jan. 31st, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI haven't been logging books this year, but one of the few genre novels I've read is the one I just finished: The 1983 BSSFA winner Tik-Tok, by the late John Sladek. It's a witty satirical novel about a robot with "faulty asimov circuits" that ends up a sociopath.
There's a lot in this book that clearly helped inspire Futurama, but I was particularly pleased to read the titular robot, when chewing out a group of student revolutionaries, tell them, "you can kiss my copper-plated ass!"
I highly recommend this book if you can find a used copy. It's brutal (and occasionally gory), but it's also a great send-up of many classic sci-fi tropes.
There's a lot in this book that clearly helped inspire Futurama, but I was particularly pleased to read the titular robot, when chewing out a group of student revolutionaries, tell them, "you can kiss my copper-plated ass!"
I highly recommend this book if you can find a used copy. It's brutal (and occasionally gory), but it's also a great send-up of many classic sci-fi tropes.