Jerry Dunham 7 min read

Thad Morgan surveys his cramped room, two deactivated robots and a limp suit on a frame, and grumbles at the whole ridiculous convention, then picks up the rulebook to begin.

Jerry Dunham's 1955 story spins a wry AI-and-social-SF tale from a future where robots stand in at weddings. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story about tradition, ceremony, and the very unromantic machinery behind a modern engagement.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

7 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).