Rog Phillips 43 min read

A robot, and the trouble it makes, multiply in unexpected ways in a wry tale of machines and their makers.

Rog Phillips's 1958 story spins a clever AI-and-social-SF tale of robots and duplication. Sharp, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a witty story where the question of one robot, or two, or the same, leads somewhere trickier than it first appears.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua