0005: The Runaway Robot

Is there any plot more universal than the companionship between a boy and his robot? This episode we discuss Lester del Rey’s Runaway Robot, and the value of Scholastic Books in the pre-internet age.

The Runaway Robot by Lester del Rey
https://archive.org/details/runawayrobot00delr

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain:
https://archive.org/details/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

Scholastic Books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastic_Corporation