Jack Williamson - The Humanoids and With Folded Hands

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  06/13/2008
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  This is an unabridged version, 136MB, running for 10 hours. <br /> <br /> Encoded as 32kbps 22050Hz MP3 mono - radio quality <br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <br /> <br /> Jack Williamson's novel, The Humanoids (1949), is considered one of the most important stories about robots and humanity. Many previous stories about robots, excluding Asimov's, portrayed robots as evil beings bent on the destruction of humanity. The robots in The Humanoids have exactly the opposite problem--they are too benevolent. <br /> <br /> Their Prime Directive is &quot;To Serve and Obey, And Guard Men From Harm&quot; but they take it too far. Asimov's robots are often in the position of saving humanity from itself, but these robots turn humans into docile sheep by following their programming too closely. They do not allow any risky behavior, they do not allow unhappiness, they do not allow anything new or exciting: they basically do not allow humans to be human. <br /> <br /> This story is similar to many utopian/dystopian novels such as 1984 and Zamiatin's We where humans are kept under control for their own protection, but it leads to a stifling of the human spirit, freedom,and creativity. A group of humans rebel against this tyranny but the robots soon learn how to make them happy as well. <br /> <br /> The novel is an expansion of the original influential story &quot;With Folded Hands&quot; (1947) by Jack Williamson. The title refers to the only thing left for humanity to do: sit with folded hands as the robots take care of all their troubles. <br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Remembrances </span><!--bold--><br /> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Science-Fiction Writer Jack Williamson Dies at 98</span><!--underline--> <br /> <br /> (WMP link) <br /> http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&amp;showDate=15-Nov-2006&amp;segNum=7&amp;mediaPref=WM&amp;sauid=U048882491170850477650&amp;getUnderwriting=1&amp;mswmext=.asx <br /> <br /> Morning Edition, November 15, 2006 &middot; Science-fiction writer Jack Williamson explored the dark side of science and technology. He died on Friday at the age of 98. Williamson will be remembered as a founding father of twentieth-century science fiction. Williamson sold his first story in 1928 to a pulp magazine. His most famous book was the 1947 novel The Humanoids. <br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Read by the incomparable Stefan Rudnicki</span><!--italic--><br /> <br /> ****************** My other torrents are here<br /> <br /> http://www.mininova.org/user/instantcd<br /> <br /> ******************
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Files

File	Size
01 - With Folded Hands 1.mp3	9.1 MB
02 - With Folded Hands 2.mp3	9.1 MB
03 - With Folded Hands 3.mp3	9.1 MB
04 - The Humanoids 01.mp3	11 MB
05 - The Humanoids 02.mp3	11 MB
06 - The Humanoids 03.mp3	11 MB
07 - The Humanoids 04.mp3	11 MB
08 - The Humanoids 05.mp3	11 MB
09 - The Humanoids 06.mp3	9.4 MB
10 - The Humanoids 07.mp3	9.4 MB
11 - The Humanoids 08.mp3	9.4 MB
12 - The Humanoids 09.mp3	9.4 MB
13 - The Humanoids 10.mp3	9.4 MB
14 - The Humanoids 11.mp3	9.4 MB
The Humanoids.txt	2.3 KB
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