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"Writing about the future, I have a vested interest in there being a future for me to write about."
- John Brunner
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| Surgical Hand | ||
| A specialized robotic hand used for surgery. |
| And now the simulacra, here on the spot, were beginning to operate; one administered a local anesthetic while the other, utilizing a complex surgical hand, began to cut into the dermal wall of the injured man's abdominal cavity. |
| Technovelgy from Clans of the Alphane Moon,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1964 Additional resources -
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Compare to the mechanical hand from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD (1929) by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins), microhands from Microhands (Микроруки) (1931) by Boris Zhitkov, iron fingers from The Death's Head Meteor (1931) by Neil R. Jones, robot hands from The Iron World (1937) by Otis Adelbert Kline, waldoes from Waldo (1942) by Robert Heinlein, robot surgeon-hand from War Veteran (1955) by Philip K. Dick, robotic hand from The Door Into Summer (1956) by Robert Heinlein, interchangeable hands from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick and office hand from The Human Blend (2010) by Alan Dean Foster.
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