Induction from R.Boots

'''Porush, David. "Induction from R.Boots" (sic).' MR47/48'': 93-106 (see under Literary Criticism, L. McCaffery, guest ed.).[]

Formally, a one-scene play with an induction, presented as the opening of the play R.Boots; we will call it fiction: a postmodernist variation on themes from such modernist classics as R. U. R. and E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (q.v. under Drama and Fiction respectively). See for robots and a setting in a "domed colony" with a "hive-like layout" full of "high-tech apparati," giving an effect that is "sterile, stark, clinical. Like the inside of a circuit board" (95).