EAC234 Assignment 1 - Helen O'loy - Mark Salvador

GENERAL: Helen O’loy is a short SF story written by Lester del Rey and was first published in 1938. At the time the typical robot stories involved rampaging automatons creating a path of death and destruction across the planet Earth. Straying away from this, Helen O’Loy focuses on love, or artificial love for that matter where (which has never been heard of before) a robot has human emotions.

SUMMARY/PLOT

SETTING

MAJOR CHARACTERS: Helen Dave Phil Lena Mrs. van Styler

THEMES

SCI-FI ELEMENTS

AI with emotions in modern SciFi: BattleStar Galactica: -Number Three -Number Five -Number Six -Number Eight -Leoben Conoy -Simon -Cavil

                                       Star Trek:

-Commander Data

                                       Stargate SG-1:

-Reese -First -Second -Third -Fourth -Fifth -Sixth -Seventh -Eighth -RepliCarter

                                       Blade Runner:

-Replicants

                                       AI:

-Mechas

I, Robot: -Robots