02993nam 22006135 450 991086525560332120240601125427.09783031604997(electronic bk.)978303160498010.1007/978-3-031-60499-7(MiAaPQ)EBC31360936(Au-PeEL)EBL31360936(CKB)32213130000041(DE-He213)978-3-031-60499-7(EXLCZ)993221313000004120240601d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Orchid Cage A Science Fiction Novel /by Herbert W. Franke1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2024.1 online resource (156 pages)Science and Fiction,2197-1196Print version: Franke, Herbert W. The Orchid Cage Cham : Springer,c2024 9783031604980 The First Attempt -- The Second Attempt -- The Third Attempt -- Epilog -- Afterword by Hans Esselborn.This book is a new English translation of the classic science fiction story written in 1961 by Herbert W. Franke, widely held to be the most important German-language science-fiction writer. A dead city on a distant planet, two groups of people trying to explore it. Step by step, they penetrate the outer ring with its ultra-modern technology, the half-ruined medieval city center and finally the mysterious center. But is the eerie city really dead? Suddenly the factories start working again, the automatons intervene, and somewhere in the background there is still something hidden that could perhaps awaken. But is it people or machines? Herbert W. Franke leads the reader into an oppressively strange world; only after the startling resolution does it become clear what lies behind the adventures of the intruders - not a cosmic strangeness, but a threatening development that could affect humans in the same way. Franke's novel is thus a parable of the evolution of all humans in the age of technical communication ...Science and Fiction,2197-1196FictionTechnologyPhilosophySocial evolutionArtificial intelligenceFiction LiteraturePhilosophy of TechnologySocial EvolutionArtificial IntelligenceFiction.TechnologyPhilosophy.Social evolution.Artificial intelligence.Fiction Literature.Philosophy of Technology.Social Evolution.Artificial Intelligence.809.3Franke Herbert W189307MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910865255603321The Orchid Cage4168701UNINA