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"Science fiction represents the modern heresy and the cutting edge of speculative imagination as it grapples with Mysterious Time---linear or non-linear time."
- Frank Herbert
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| Robot-Boss | ||
| A mechanical device that tells people what to do. |
As far as I know, the first use of the phrase "robot-boss".
| The men filled bag after bag with
coal, and carried them close to the
mouth of the adit near the mouth
of a deserted shaft. John was one
of the men who were carrying the
heavy bags back through the tunnel,
and he slipped away on one trip while
the robot-boss was busy at the lip
of the new lode instructing and egging the men on to greater speed...
 (Robot-Boss from 'Women's World' by David C. Cooke) "ALL RIGHT,” rasped the robot, “that will be enough—in fact, there are too many bags already! You men” — he pointed to the strongest ones, including John — “take the bags and come with me. Remember,” he continued, “my photon gun will shoot faster than you can run, so don’t try to get away.” |
| Technovelgy from Women's World,
by David C. Cooke. Published by Science Fiction in 1939 Additional resources -
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'Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays.'
'The Ringworld had no horizon. There was no line where the land curved away from the sky.'
'An adjustment panel outside the door would cause it to extrude various appurtenances in memory plastic...'
'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.'
It's not really polite to tear the limbs off robots.
'...the imaginary companions discovered by needful children.'
''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?''
'I opened the oblong box, where lay the automatons side by side...'
'They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record!'
