02690nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001400169072002300183072001300206100008000219245009500299250001800394264006900412300004300481336002600524337002600550338003600576347002400612490003600636505010700672520103000779650001301809650002801822650002201850650002901872650002401901650003001925650002201955650002901977710003402006773002602040776003602066776003602102830003602138856004602174978-3-031-60499-7DE-He21320251030112250.0cr nn 008mamaa240601s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316049977 a10.1007/978-3-031-60499-72doi 4aPN3311-3503 7aF2bicssc 7aFIC0000002bisacsh 7aF2thema1 aFranke, Herbert W.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Orchid Cageh[electronic resource] :bA Science Fiction Novel /cby Herbert W. Franke.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aVII, 149 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aScience and Fiction,x2197-11960 aThe First Attempt -- The Second Attempt -- The Third Attempt -- Epilog -- Afterword by Hans Esselborn.  aThis 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 ... 0aFiction. 0aTechnologyxPhilosophy. 0aSocial evolution. 0aArtificial intelligence.14aFiction Literature.24aPhilosophy of Technology.24aSocial Evolution.24aArtificial Intelligence.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303160498008iPrinted edition:z9783031605000 0aScience and Fiction,x2197-119640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60499-7