![]() ![]() Dick’s seminal replicant thriller Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the film versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes- The Iron Man was not initially received as a science-fiction landmark. Published in 1968-the same year as Philip K. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. All the separate pieces tumbled, scattered, crashing, bumping, clanging, down on to the rocky beach far below.” He rebuilds himself, but Hughes has established his hero’s mix of power and vulnerability. His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out. No sooner has the giant metal figure descended upon the earth than an errant step sends him hurtling off the edge of a cliff: “His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms. Its entrance is pitched halfway between mythmaking and slapstick. The opening paragraph of Ted Hughes’s children’s book The Iron Man introduces its title character in a strange and contradictory way. ![]()
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