Anthony Boucher 28 min read

You'd think Council approval meant the end of android robots for good, but people aren't straight, not even to themselves, and Dugg Quinby's troubles with the robot monopoly are far from over.

Anthony Boucher's 1943 story is a clever, witty AI-and-social-SF tale of a robot cartel and the man out to break it. Sharp, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where a straight-thinking inventor takes on a crooked monopoly, in a smart companion to Boucher's 'Q.U.R.'

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer