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- Samuel R. Delany
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| Artificial Life | ||
| Creating living beings from inorganic elements. |
| "And their science made triumph after triumph. For long they had desired slaves to serve them, but the humans they captured for this purpose could not be used...
"So their scientists took counsel and produced at last the creatures that are now their slaves, two of which brought you here. The Martian scientists had gone far within the secrets of life and death, so far that they were now able to reproduce the processes of life itself, and make out inorganic elements the things you have seen... "I have seen the things being made myself, and a ghastly sight it is. They do not eat, they do not sleep, they are literally living machines, needing only a certain stimulant from time to time, which is injected into them just as you would oil a machine." |
| Technovelgy from Across Space,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Weird Tales in 1926 Additional resources -
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Compare to the androids from Jack Williamson's 1936 novel The Cometeers, which is probably the first use of the term "android" in science fiction.
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'He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.'
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'It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan.'
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