Talk:The Bicentennial Man

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[edit] Joke

Is that chicken joke actually in the book? I know it's in the movie, but I don't remember seeing it in at least the Estonian translation of the book. PeepP 14:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

It is not, I just checked the story. A version of this was in another Asimov tale, but not this one. Gundato 17:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Was the movie a flop? It earned awards...

I could fill a small book listing commercially unsuccessful movies (and TV series) that have won awards... 23skidoo 01:01, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bicentennial vs Positronic

I'm not especially familiar with this story, or the various incarnations it has been released as, so I'll only say that the currently worded article introduces title "The Positronic Man" halfway down, without any context. I thought it was referring to a different story when I first read it. There should be a phrase such as ", originally titled The Positronic Man when published in such and such anthology," in the introductory paragraph. Anybody else think so, or I don't know what I'm talking about? Xaxafrad 01:44, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if the problem is still there (it's clear to me), the original title was "the bicentennial man", and "the positronic man" was a later novel based on the novella. SamBC(talk) 18:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Media Type == Book?

"The Bicentennial Man" is a short story (or more precisely a novella) that, among other occasions of publication, was the title story of an anthology; why does the infobox say its media type is "book"? SamBC(talk) 18:20, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see, it's meant to be the medium of first publishing; that ought to be clarified in the template. SamBC(talk) 18:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)