| Description |
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Mythological Origins -- Cyborgs, Androids, Replicants -- On the History of Hybrids -- The Synthetic Human I -- Cyborg Warrior I -- Xeno-Transplantation -- The Synthetic Human II -- Cyborg Warrior II -- Cyborgs Go Intergalactic -- Man = Machine? Dissection, or the Destruction of the Body -- Man ̃ Machine. The Mechanical-Human Metaphor -- Androids. The (Re-)Construction of Man as Machine -- The Electrical Human -- Homunculi -- Life From the Lab -- Test-Tube Babies and Genetic Doubles -- Artificial Women. From Antiquity to the Present -- Eve and Pandora -- Galatea and Her Daughters -- Francine -- The Nameless -- The Musician -- Waxen Beauties -- My Wooden Wife -- Olympia -- Baby Doll -- Hadaly -- The False Maria -- Three Dolls: Alma -- Ursula -- Caracas -- Jolanthe -- Rheya -- The Mask -- Faustine and A -- Genghis -- Joanna -- Olexpo -- Sexbots |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) |
| Subject |
Androids in literature.
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Machine theory in literature.
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Robotics -- History.
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Robots in literature.
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Technology and civilization.
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| Author |
Rossbach, Sabine.
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| LC no. |
2011034635 |
| ISBN |
3631578083 |
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9783631578087 |
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