03085nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-60499-7 DE-He213 20251030112250.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240601s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031604997 978-3-031-60499-7 10.1007/978-3-031-60499-7 doi PN3311-3503 F bicssc FIC000000 bisacsh F thema Franke, Herbert W. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78049 The Orchid Cage [electronic resource] : A Science Fiction Novel / by Herbert W. Franke. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VII, 149 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Science and Fiction, 2197-1196 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 ... Fiction. Technology Philosophy. 68026 Social evolution. 66163 Artificial intelligence. 58441 Fiction Literature. Philosophy of Technology. 68027 Social Evolution. 66163 Artificial Intelligence. 58441 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031604980 Printed edition: 9783031605000 Science and Fiction, 2197-1196 71403 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60499-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 60399 60399