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Today in Literary History – January 9, 1890 – Karel Čapek, the science fiction writer who invented the term “robot” is born – bookworm norm
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A still from what is believed to be the first science fiction on television: a 35 minute production of Karel Capek's play 'R.U.R.' (which introduced the term "robot") for the BBC in (
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