《刽子手返乡》 / Home Is the Hangman

《刽子手返乡》 / Home Is the Hangman is the Zelazny story discussed in sp.03 串台｜趁生命气息逗留：泽拉兹尼与他的梦境 as a robot trauma and personhood case. The source describes a detective moving between virtual and real worlds while investigating deaths connected to a former space-exploration robot called the Hangman.

The episode reads the Hangman less as a simple machine threat than as a being shaped by human operators, sensory/emotional connection, a violent formative event, and the burden of returning to Earth after being shut down. Its goal is presented as not merely revenge, but heading toward the stars, which makes the story central to Robot-Human Boundary.

Connections

• Roger Zelazny / 罗杰·泽拉兹尼 - author.
• Isaac Asimov - contrast point for robot-law breakdown versus psychological collapse.
• Robot-Human Boundary and Embodied Personhood - main personhood frames.
• 《趁生命气息逗留》 - collection context.
• Human Judgment Under AI - adjacent modern AI boundary, though the source is a literary rather than product-technical discussion.