Made Servant Rebels

myth:made_servant_rebels

And its dark heart, already in this archive: the clay Golem that grows too strong for its maker, Frankenstein's abandoned and vengeful creature, and Capek's R.U.R., which gave the world the word 'robot' — from the Czech for drudgery — and in which the made workers rise as one and wipe out mankind. The robot is born, in its very first story, already in revolt. — genre history