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"Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it [science fiction] is par excellence the literature of the open mind."
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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 robant from The Impossible Planet (1953) by Philip K. Dick, the consumption robots from The Midas Plague (1954) by Frederik Pohl and the autobutle from The Godmakers (1972) by Frank Herbert. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'...she dropped her hands from the wheel, took the robot snake from his box.'
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'the real border was defended by ...a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats...'
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'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.'
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