R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Written by Karel Capek
Narrated by LibriVox Community
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Narrator: John Trevithick
Helena Glory / Robot Helena: Sarah Terry
Harry Domin / Primus: ToddHW
Dr. Gall: Barry Streifert
Mr. Fabry: James Callaghan
Dr. Hallemeier / Consul Busman: SteveToner
Mr. Alquist: Beth Thomas
Nana: KHand
Radius: T. Layne
Sulla / First Robot: Tina Nuzzi
Marius / Fourth Robot: Rosslyn Carlyle
A Servant: Etel Buss
Second Robot / Third Robot: Kitty Kay / Mary Kay
Karel Capek
Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.
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Reviews for R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The LibriVox recording uses the Paul Selver translation, which is abridged, and the performers have different quality recordings. It's fairly clear, but not the easiest to listen to.
The work itself is very interesting and well worth reading, especially as a science fiction fan.