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![]() As far as I know, the first use of the phrase "spider robot".
Here's the excerpt with the phrase "spider robot":
A look of frustrated rage entered Jerry’s eyes. One of the policemen was speaking.
“We shot the spider thing,” he was saying apologetically. “The elevator boy told us afterward it was a mechanical gadget of yours, but we thought it was alive at the time.
Compare to the metallic spider from The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells,
the scarab robot from The Scarab (1936) by Raymond Z. Gallun,
the mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury,
the metal insects from The Invincible (1954) by Stanislaw Lem,
the Sheem spider robot from The Witches of Karres (1966) by James Schmitz,
the spider tripod from Rendezvous With Rama (1972) by Arthur C. Clarke,
the spider cable device from The Web Between the Worlds (1979) by Charles Sheffield,
the spider robotic insects from Runaway (1985) by Michael Crichton and the recon spiders from Minority Report (Movie) (2002) by Steven Spielberg. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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