I love robot stories (as you might gather from some of the things I’ve had published). The other week I was in the local bookshop after a robot book and found a collection of classic A.I. short stories. Unfortunately for the publishers, it struck me it would be cheaper to take a picture of the contents page then look them up myself, so here we go (along with some others I’ve dug up in the process):
- R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek
This, apparently, is the work that introduced the word ‘robot’ - The discontented machine, by Adeline Knapp
- Ely’s automatic handmaid, by Elizabeth Bellamy
- Automata, by S. Fowler Wright
- The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster
- Two-handed engine, by C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner
- But who can replace a man, by Brian Aldiss
- A logic named Joe, by Will Jenkins
- Imposter, by Philip K Dick
- Also, any of Asimov’s short stories could make this list, but it’s easy to find these by Googling: “Asimov i robot pdf”, for example.
Impostor, by Philip K. Dick of Bladerunner fame: https://mypages.valdosta.edu/asantas/Texts/Impostor.pdf
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