robots

[s/LaSH]

Ok now here is another question. Are or were there any stories/novels with robots set in alternate Earth 1940's?

I'm not familiar with anything specifically alternate and robotic. However, there are two sources I'd go to: writers of the period (Asimov and others - Golden Age writers), who often wrote about robots (although they were writing in the 40s, not about them), and modern anime, which will occasionally do things like 'hey, let's have World War II with mecha and alien invasions and stuff' (unfortunately, I've never seen, and can't remember the name of, that show - anyone?).

 

[tecnowraith]

I'm not familiar with anything specifically alternate and robotic. However, there are two sources I'd go to: writers of the period (Asimov and others - Golden Age writers), who often wrote about robots (although they were writing in the 40s, not about them), and modern anime, which will occasionally do things like 'hey, let's have World War II with mecha and alien invasions and stuff' (unfortunately, I've never seen, and can't remember the name of, that show - anyone?).

The writers you mentioned I have known about which is not what i am looking, them writing about robots in the that period.

 

[s/LaSH]

The writers you mentioned I have known about which is not what i am looking, them writing about robots in the that period.

I guess anime is your best source, then - and it's not a great source for serious consideration.

Does anybody else have ideas?

 

[tecnowraith]

I was wandering, should robots and other machines (not mecha) that have been merged or fused with etheral beings be totally runned by the enties or should the beings (spirits) just be the brain of the robots and have a seperate power source that make them move?

 

[s/LaSH]

Depends. How powerful is the ethereal without a robot?

Could it possess a statue and walk it about? If so, then the robot doesn't need a power source.

Could it throw lightning, or is generally energetic? It can probably wire into the power grid of the robot, depending on the robot's size, the robot's mechanical power type requirements (no matter how many car batteries you have, you're not going to get the Space Shuttle off the ground), and the ethereal's finesse (elephants are powerful, but do not make good clockmakers; lightning is electricity, but you don't fix your watch battery by catching lightning bolts).

If the ethereal is pretty diffuse and abstract from normal reality, I couldn't really say. Depends how you feel about it.

If you haven't made up your mind about any of this yet, make something up - just make sure it's cool and kinda makes sense. "Because I say so" is the basis of a great deal in the fantasy and scifi genres; there's no scientific basis for Gandalf whatsoever.

 

[ddvmor]

Ok now here is another question. Are or were there any stories/novels with robots set in alternate Earth 1940's?

How about Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? I think that's set in the 30's...