Naked Came the Robot

Longyear, Barry B. Naked Came the Robot. New York: Popular Library-Warner, 1988.

The basic plot of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, handled with an absurdist sensibility, for the purpose of satirizing (mostly) SF motifs and personalities, including the themes of robot take-over, robotization of humans, the association of machines and bugs (cockroaches, spiders), and the human perversion of mechanisexuality. Rev. Michael M. Levy, SF&FBR Annual 1989: 329-30. See in this Category J. T. Sladek, The Reproductive System.