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"I received a nice letter the other day from the Dalai Lama. He had read 'The Nine Billion Names of God'. It is about a computer at a Tibetan monastery."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Leady | ||
| A radiation-resistant robot. |
| Now the surface was a lethal desert of slag and rolling clouds. Endless clouds drifted back and forth, blotting out the red Sun. Occasionally something metallic stirred, moving through the remains of a city, threading its way across the tortured terrain of the countryside. A leady, a surface robot, immune to radiation, constructed with feverish haste in the last months before the cold war became literally hot.
 (From The Defenders, by Philip K. Dick) Leadys, crawling along the ground, moving over the oceans or through the skies in slender, blackened craft, creatures that could exist where no life could remain, metal and plastic figures that waged a war Man had conceived, but which he could not fight himself. |
| Technovelgy from The Defenders,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Galaxy in 1953 Additional resources -
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Here's another fine illustration:
(Leady from 'The Defenders')
Compare to lead-bodied android from Robots of the World! Arise!" (1952) by Mari Wolf.
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