Adam Link is a fictional robot

Robot

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

, made in the likeness of a man, who becomes self-aware, and the protagonist of several science fiction

Science fiction

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 short stories written by Eando Binder

Eando Binder

Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder and his brother Otto Binder . The name is derived from their first initials ....

 (Earl and Otto Binder). The stories were originally published in Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

from 1939 to 1942.

In all, ten Adam Link stories were published. The first was "I, Robot

I, Robot (short story)

"I, Robot" is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder about a robot named Adam Link.It was published in the January 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, well before the related and more known book I, Robot , a collection of short stories, by Isaac Asimov...

" (not to be confused with the book by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

; see the article on Eando Binder

Eando Binder

Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder and his brother Otto Binder . The name is derived from their first initials ....

).

Adam Link stories

• "I, Robot" (January 1939)
• "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" (July 1939)
• "Adam Link in Business" (January 1940)
• "Adam Link's Vengeance" (February 1940)
• "Adam Link, Robot Detective" (May 1940)
• "Adam Link, Champion Athlete" (July 1940)
• "Adam Link Fights a War" (December 1940)
• "Adam Link in the Past" (February 1941)
• "Adam Link Faces a Revolt" (May 1941)
• "Adam Link Saves the World" (April 1942)

Paperback Library published a mass market paperback collection entitled Adam Link - Robot in 1965, it tells his story in a first person narrative from Creation to Citizenship in twenty-one chapters with an Epilogue which tells why Link is telling his story, and his encouragement for humanity's future. It was reprinted in 1970 by Fawcett Crest Books and by Warner

Time

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 in 1974, there were also a number of re-prints by Ballantine Books

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 later on.

Adaptations

"I, Robot" and "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" were the basis of two episodes of The Outer Limits, one from the original series

The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)

The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...

 "I, Robot" in 1964, and one from the revival series

The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)

The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...

 "I, Robot" in 1995. Both versions featured Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....

.

The series has been adapted for comic books twice, once for Entertaining Comics' Weird Science-Fantasy

Weird Science-Fantasy

Weird Science-Fantasy was a science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. Over a 14-month span, the comic ran for seven issues, starting in March 1954 with issue #23 and ending with issue #29 in May/June 1955....

in 1955 (issues 27-29), and again for Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing

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's Creepy

Creepy

Creepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but...

in 1965-67 (issues 2, 4, 6, 8-9, 12-13 and 15). In each case, the adaptation was scripted by Binder and drawn by Joe Orlando

Joe Orlando

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. In each case, the series was discontinued before it could be completed.

External links

• Adam Link at Tales of Future Past