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"I've come across more and more people who've actually tried reading science fiction and can't make it make sense."
- Samuel R. Delany
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| Robant | ||
| A robotic servant. |
| Behind Norton came a withered old woman. Beside her moved a gleaming robant, a towering robot servant, supporting her with his arm. The robant and the tiny old woman entered the control room slowly...
"Irma Vincent Gordon," Andrews murmured. He glanced up. "Is that right?" The old woman did not move. "She is totally deaf, sir," the robant said. |
| Technovelgy from The Impossible Planet,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Not Known in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to the electrical valet from The Lord of Tranerica (1939) by Stanton A. Coblentz, the butler-valet robot from The Jester (1951) by William Tenn, the consumption robots from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl, the robutler from The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970) by Harry Harrison, the autobutle from The Godmakers (1972) by Frank Herbert and the carer-type robot from The Robot (2024) by Lavie Tidhar.
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