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The Metal Smile

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"Do not fold, bend or mutilate" marked the beginning of our cybernetic society. How will it end?
The varied answers to that question have proved to be fertile ground for some of the greatest science fiction imaginations. But perhaps we shouldn't look too closely into the future of cybernetics. It may be that the survival capacity of the thinking machine is greater than that of its maker...

Contents:

The New Father Christmas • • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
Answer • • shortstory by Fredric Brown
Fool's Mate • • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
Quixote and the Windmill • • shortstory by Poul Anderson
Two-Handed Engine • • novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
First to Serve • • shortstory by Algis Budrys
I Made You • • shortstory by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Monkey Wrench • • shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
Impostor • • shortstory by Philip K. Dick
Someday • • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Short in the Chest • • shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]
Nightmare Number Three • • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Belmont Productions, Inc.

Release: October 01, 1968

The Metal Smile

3.3/5 ( ratings)

"Do not fold, bend or mutilate" marked the beginning of our cybernetic society. How will it end?
The varied answers to that question have proved to be fertile ground for some of the greatest science fiction imaginations. But perhaps we shouldn't look too closely into the future of cybernetics. It may be that the survival capacity of the thinking machine is greater than that of its maker...

Contents:

The New Father Christmas • • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
Answer • • shortstory by Fredric Brown
Fool's Mate • • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
Quixote and the Windmill • • shortstory by Poul Anderson
Two-Handed Engine • • novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
First to Serve • • shortstory by Algis Budrys
I Made You • • shortstory by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Monkey Wrench • • shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
Impostor • • shortstory by Philip K. Dick
Someday • • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Short in the Chest • • shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]
Nightmare Number Three • • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Belmont Productions, Inc.

Release: October 01, 1968

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