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Post by helrunar on Jan 10, 2022 14:30:43 GMT
In 1964, there was a short-lived television series starring the legendary Julie Newmar, My Living Doll. She was an android, not a robot, however. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmYoVhH5-FUH. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 10, 2022 14:31:39 GMT
There is a number of Lady Robots in Robert Aickman. Please describe them, or link to your reviews of the stories with them in. Here’s one I recall to be going on with: THE SCHOOL FRIEND by Robert Aickman. My review: dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/the-undying-aickman/ - and please see Elizabeth Stack’s tweet that I reproduce at the end of my review in its comment stream. It was she who brought to my attention that it was all about an android or lady robot! I am sure there are a few other Aickman stories where the true interpretation is of a lady robot. Perhaps the Aickman experts here should opine on this as a sort of quiz before I sift through all my reviews again. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 10, 2022 14:44:14 GMT
Aickman's The Swords ?
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 10, 2022 14:49:43 GMT
Brilliant! That is the first potential Aickman Lady Robot I would think of after The School Friend. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 10, 2022 15:23:10 GMT
"The Lady Automaton" by E.E. Kellett ( Pearson's Magazine, June 1901). Read it here - www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff9/aut.htmAlso, Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives (1972). Kellett seems to have been quite keen on automatons - he also wrote "The New Frankenstein" ( Pearson's, May 1899) and "How I Won the Derby: A Romance of an Automaton" ( Pearson's, June 1901), with the latter having a mechanical horse winning the race. This is him:  And this is his only collection of short stories, published by Jarrold & Sons (London) in 1900:  |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 10, 2022 16:08:41 GMT
Brilliant! That is the first potential Aickman Lady Robot I would think of after The School Friend. Also Aickman’s THE CLOCKWATCHER - the German wife as cyborg? My review: dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/29651-2/ |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 10, 2022 16:46:46 GMT
This is him: I am pretty sure that is actually Michael Palin, from an old Monty Python episode. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 10, 2022 22:58:09 GMT
I still haven't read any Aickman. Please list a few stories that are best for an introduction.
A horror collection on my ebook site has his The Marriage in it. Is that worth trying?
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Post by helrunar on Jan 11, 2022 1:36:56 GMT
You can read Weirdmonger's reviews of Aickman's stories on his site. His reviews are often as intriguing, elliptical and gnomic as the tales themselves.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2022 7:44:55 GMT
You can read Weirdmonger's reviews of Aickman's stories on his site. His reviews are often as intriguing, elliptical and gnomic as the tales themselves. H. They are all linked gnomically here: dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/robert-aickman/MARRIAGE is sexy. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 11, 2022 15:17:21 GMT
You can read Weirdmonger's reviews of Aickman's stories on his site. His reviews are often as intriguing, elliptical and gnomic as the tales themselves. H. I frequently visit his site. As I am his muse. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 11, 2022 15:24:30 GMT
You can read Weirdmonger's reviews of Aickman's stories on his site. His reviews are often as intriguing, elliptical and gnomic as the tales themselves. H. I frequently visit his site. As I am his muse. You can't be his muse and my aide. You are fired. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 11, 2022 15:28:27 GMT
I frequently visit his site. As I am his muse. You can't be his muse and my aide. You are fired. You forget, there are two of me, I'm (the aide one) the sequel. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 11, 2022 15:58:51 GMT
You forget, there are two of me, I'm (the aide one) the sequel. I want to swap you for the other one then. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 11, 2022 16:02:02 GMT
You forget, there are two of me, I'm (the aide one) the sequel. I want to swap you for the other one then. That one doesn't talk, where would the fun be in that? |
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