Old Rossum's Book Of Practical Robots

Old Rossum's Book of Practical Robots is an A5 multi-author poetry booklet, published in 2008, on the theme of robots.
Available to order.
The TS Eliot-aping title comes from the happy accident that the word robot was introduced to the English language, and to science-fiction as a whole, through the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, wherein the titular 'robot' factory was founded by a character known as...Old Rossum.
Cover art by Alan Hunter.
Internal art by AC Evans, Alan Hunter and Christopher Catt James.
==Contents==
*Old Rossum's Book of Practical RobotsA Parody by DJ Tyrer
**The Naming of Robots
**The Old Clanky Robot
**Exterminator's Last Stand
**The Rum Rum Robot
**The Song of the Transistors
**Mr Jones and Rapunzel
**Old Deuteronomy Mk.7
**Of The Awful Battles Of The Aliens And The Automatons
**Mechanical Monstrosities
**Robbie: The Rossum Robot
**Rus: The Rusted Robot
**Starman Jones: The Robot's Victim
**Scumbleplunk: The Railway Robot
**The Ad-dressing of Robots
**Robot Robbie Introduces Himself
*Greek Ware by Steve Sneyd
*Next Gen by Vivien Foster
*Schizophrenic by Ed Blundell
*Computercorp by Blair H. Allen
*Socialite by John Francis Haines
*Forget Latex Love by LUV2288i, serial number 5377-01-23
*End Result by DS Davidson
*So by Bryn Fortey
*Right Back To First Principles by Steve Sneyd
*Rust by John Francis Haines
*Home Help by Vivien Foster
*Talus Talks by Steve Sneyd
*Black Robots by John Francis Haines
*HealthCo by DS Davidson
*Click by Jean M. Hayward
*In Service by Vivien Foster
*The Impracticality Of A Positronic Brain by DS Davidson
*Rover by John Francis Haines
*How To Be a Robot by Blair H. Allen
*Waiting For Two Legs by John Francis Haines
*Silicon Love by DS Davidson
===Trivia===
*The poem Home Help was placed shared-third in the Data Dump Award 2009; Rover was also short-listed for the award and the poems In Service and So were long-listed.
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