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Creating the page... just the day Lem leaves us...
Because it's one of my favourite writers in this is one of his best works
In memoriam... :( :( :(
grafikm_fr 21:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Dates are way off, the Hungarian translation was published in 1970. -- Tgr ( talk) 09:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
And in Poland, Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (1968) contained all the novels except Ananke. I'm guessing the dates are for the English publication. -- Tgr ( talk) 09:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
A similar idea is present in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, where putting a robot in a position where it cannot chose between the Three laws of robotics fries its positronic brain.
I have to say the comparison with Asimov is off-base--the central idea of The Inquest is that a human may freeze up when confronted with a no-win situation, but a machine will not. This is precisely the opposite of what happens in Asimov's robot stories. Removing.-- 173.239.166.66 ( talk) 22:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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Creating the page... just the day Lem leaves us...
Because it's one of my favourite writers in this is one of his best works
In memoriam... :( :( :(
grafikm_fr 21:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Dates are way off, the Hungarian translation was published in 1970. -- Tgr ( talk) 09:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
And in Poland, Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (1968) contained all the novels except Ananke. I'm guessing the dates are for the English publication. -- Tgr ( talk) 09:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
A similar idea is present in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, where putting a robot in a position where it cannot chose between the Three laws of robotics fries its positronic brain.
I have to say the comparison with Asimov is off-base--the central idea of The Inquest is that a human may freeze up when confronted with a no-win situation, but a machine will not. This is precisely the opposite of what happens in Asimov's robot stories. Removing.-- 173.239.166.66 ( talk) 22:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)