short story "I, Robot" by Eando Binder (story credit inspiration)

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The short story "I, Robot" by Eando Binder is a pioneering 1939 science fiction tale about a sympathetic robot named Adam Link that helped shape later robot literature and inspired subsequent works using the same title.

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instanceOf science fiction work
short story
adaptationType television episode
author Eando Binder NERFINISHED
authorCollectivePseudonymFor Earl Binder NERFINISHED
Otto Binder NERFINISHED
copyrightStatus subject to 20th-century US copyright law
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacterType robot
firstPublicationMedium pulp science fiction magazine
firstPublishedIn Amazing Stories NERFINISHED
followedBy Adam Link in Business NERFINISHED
genre science fiction
hasAdaptation The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot" (1964) NERFINISHED
The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot" (1995) NERFINISHED
hasRobotCharacter Adam Link NERFINISHED
influenced later robot literature
popular culture depictions of robots
subsequent works titled "I, Robot"
inspiredTitleReuse Isaac Asimov collection "I, Robot" NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod Golden Age of Science Fiction NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Adam Link NERFINISHED
medium print
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
narrator Adam Link NERFINISHED
notableFor early sympathetic robot protagonist
pioneering treatment of robot psychology
originalAudience readers of pulp science fiction magazines
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Adam Link stories NERFINISHED
plotElement robot accused of killing its creator
robot seeks to prove its innocence
portraysRobotsAs capable of emotion
morally aware beings
protagonistType sentient robot
publicationDecade 1930s
publicationYear 1939
robotCreator Dr. Charles Link NERFINISHED
robotName Adam Link NERFINISHED
setting near-future Earth
subgenre robot fiction
theme prejudice against artificial beings
responsibility of creators toward creations
sympathetic portrayal of robots
what it means to be human
tone pathos-driven
tragic

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I, Robot basedOn short story "I, Robot" by Eando Binder (story credit inspiration)