Paul N. Lazarus
2) Westworld
Pub. Date
1972 reprinting 2017
Formats
Description
Two businessmen are enjoying a vacation at Wild West Fantasyland when a programming error causes the life-like androids to turn deadly.
3) Futureworld
Pub. Date
[2010, 1976]
Description
"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...