The Globe by Cloudfic
Discover books, writers and the worlds behind the stories.
Cloudfic Back to The Globe
It Was the Day of the Robot by Frank Belknap Long

Featured fiction

It Was the Day of the Robot

by Frank Belknap Long

The Big Brain denies John Tabor's request to marry, and in the twenty-second century it is the Brain that makes the decisions.

fiction science fiction British science fiction speculative fiction
Author Frank Belknap Long
Published 2007
Format Book

Your reading world on The Globe

Discover your next book. Keep the ones that matter.

Join The Globe for a free reader profile and discover books, writers and stories in one place.

Claim your free reader profile

About It Was the Day of the Robot

The Big Brain denies John Tabor's request to marry, and in the twenty-second century it is the Brain that makes the decisions. Should he try an artificial woman to his own specifications, "for spacemen only"? or is an escape to the Ruins a more desirable alternative? There it is possible to live a primitive kill-or-be-killed life, with modern versions of barbaric traditions. Thus begins this major science fiction novel in the tradition of Huxley and Orwell. It is so chillingly, terrifyingly real that reading is compulsive and entertaining and yet at the same time one has the feeling that all this could be around the corner.

Discuss this book

Reader discussion will appear here once The Globe community opens book conversations.

Are you the author or publisher?

Claim this page to verify the book information, add an author profile, update purchase links or request removal.