Thornton DeKy 7 min read

The Masters are all dead now, their atoms scattered by the poison comet, and only the robot Kiron and his kind remain, carrying on, alone, the last great experiment their creators left unfinished.

Thornton DeKy's 1941 story is a poignant AI-and-post-apocalyptic tale. Melancholy, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a moving story of loyal machines outliving their human makers and striving to fulfill a final purpose, an early and affecting meditation on robots, extinction, and what it means to carry on a legacy.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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