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The Quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"The editorial object of this anthology has been to achieve an upbeat collection of stories as a change from the almost constant flow of science-fiction stories whose values have been largely mechanic-materialistic. The stories in this volume which depart from traditional lines in the field are here offered as an attempt to enlarge and to broaden the philosophical scope of the genre.

Anthony Boucher believes with us that there is room within the scope of science fiction for the extrapolation of spiritual as well as material things.

In this picture of the San Francisco area a thousand years hence where robots and robasses (mechanical beasts of burden) serve the society of the future, Boucher presents a somewhat revolutionary concept to sciencefiction writing in general. But specifically, in our opin¬ ion, he has written one of the three or four best robot stories ever published."

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