Landmark Images of People and Technology in Fiction
Even before the word "robot" came about earlier last century, people were thinking, writing, and creating fiction about the subject of humanity and its relationship to machines.
Here is a reference list of landmarks in fiction about people and technology, many of which are centered around robots.
| 1726 |
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Academy of Lagado: satirized inventors and anticipated machine-produced literature) |
| 1818 |
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (novel). Sometimes called the first science fiction novel |
| 1872 |
Samuel Butler: Erewhon (novel): satirical anti-technological utopia |
| 1888 |
Edward Bellamy: Looking Backwards (novel): naive but popular utopia in which society seen as a giant factory |
| 1890 |
William Morris: News From Nowhere (novel): pastoral utopia |
| 1893 |
Ambrose Bierce: 'Moxon's Master' (story): artificial chess-player kills its maker |
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