Ray Cummings 33 min read

Robot 2-RY remembers the warmth of the sun on his burnished plating, the prideful days of his early training in the factory yard, a machine that recalls, and feels.

Ray Cummings's 1954 story, by a pioneer of the genre, is a tender, heart-warming tale of a devoted robot. Gentle, affecting golden-age SF. Read it for a moving story of an artificial servant and the very human loyalty and longing that stir within his circuits.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

33 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Alex Schomburg